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Commander 1917 



MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL 
LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES 



ANNALS OF THE 

COMMANDERY 

OF THE 

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS 

FROM ITS INSTITUTION, MARCH 4, 1868, 
TO MAY 1, 1918 

AND THE 

PROCEEDINGS AT THE FIFTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY, MARCH 6, 1918 



Compiled from the Records, from Personal Recollections, 

from Conferences with Companions, and 

from Other Sources 

BY 

HENRY M. ROGERS 

Commander, 1917 



Printed by Atlantic Printing Company, Boston 



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DEDICATION 



In tender memory of 
COLONEL ARNOLD AUGUSTUS RAN!) 

whose prevision, enthusiasm and 
devotion moulded into perma- 
nence the ideals of the Com- 
mandery of the State 
of Massachusetts. 



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HISTORICAL SKETCH. 

"The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
States had its inception on that saddest day, at the con- 
clusion of the Civil War, when humanity throughout the 
world was shocked by the death of Abraham Lincoln. In 
honor of that illustrious memory and of the great cause for 
which we had fought ; in recognition of the affectionate friend- 
ships which had been inspired among the officers of the Army 
then about to disband ; in historic recollection of the Society 
of the Cincinnati, which had embraced the officers of the 
Revolutionary Army, it was determined to form this Order; 
and at a meeting of a few officers in the city of Philadelphia 
the initial steps were that day taken for its organization. It 
was the first of the military societies which followed, or rather 
accompanied the close of the War." — (From General Charles 
Devens's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Oration.) 

On April 15, 1865, a meeting was held at the office of 
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Ellwood Zell in Philadelphia, to 
take action for the officers and ex-officers of the Army and 
Navy to act as a guard of honor to the remains of the President. 
It was determined to call a meeting of those who had served 
in the Rebellion on April 20, when Colonel Zell presented a 
motion, which was adopted, that a society should be formed 
to commemorate the events and principles of the War for the 
Union then drawing to a close, and that measures should be 
adopted to promote that object. Subsequent meetings of 
those interested were held and a provisional organization was 
effected at a meeting held May 31, in the room in Independence 
Hall where the first Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States assembled and in which Washington was 
inaugurated.— (From "The Organization of the Loyal Legion," 
by Colonel Zell, in United Service Magazine, February, 1889.) 

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Ellwood Zell and Captain Peter 
Dirck Keyser are designated as the founders of the Order, 
Colonel Mitchell's Insignia and Diploma being Number 1. 



OFFICERS OF THE COMMANDERY, MAY 2, 1917. 

Commander 
Acting Assistant Paymaster Henry M, Rogers, U.S.N. 

Senior Vice-Commander 
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Solon A. Carter, U.S.V. 

Junior Vice-Co m mander 
First Lieutenant Henry N. Sheldon, U.S.V. 

Recorder 
Captain Charles W. C. Rhoades, U.S.V. 

Registrar 
Mr. C. Peter Clark 

Treasurer 
Lieutenant Arthur B. Denny, late U.S.N. 

Chancellor 
Lieutenant-Colonel Willard D. Tripp, U.S.V. 

Chaplain 
Major Horace Bumstead, U.S.V. 

Council 
Captain Henry N. Blake, U.S.V. 
Captain Sanford K. Goldsmith, U.S.V. 
Acting Ensign Eldridge F. Small, U.S.N. 
Mr. Charles L. Homer 
Mr. George S. Selfridge 



OFFICERS OF THE COMMANDERY, MAY 1, 1918. 

Commander 
Brigadier-General Samuel M. Mansfield, U.S.A. 

Senior Vice-Commander 
Captain Henry N. Blake, U.S.V. 

Junior Vice-Commander 
First Lieutenant Mortier L. Morrison, U.S.V. 

Recorder 
Captain Charles W. C. Rhoades, U.S.V. 

Registrar 
Mr. C. Peter Clark 

Treasurer 
Lieutenant Arthur B. Denny, late U.S.N. 

Chancellor 
Lieutenant-Colonel Willard D. Tripp, U.S.V. 

Chaplain 
Major Horace Bumstead, U.S.V. 

Coimcil 
Captain Sanford K. Goldsmith, U.S.V. 
Acting Ensign Eldridge F. Small, U.S.N. 
First Lieutenant Hubbard M. Abbott, U.S.V. 
Mr. Charles L. Homer 
Mr. John H. Sellman 

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FOREWORD 

In October, 1917, your Commander applied to Colonel 
Arnold A. Rand, at that time Chairman of the Library Com- 
mittee, to prepare a brief history of our Commandery to be 
presented to the Companions on March 6, 1918, the 
Fiftieth Anniversary of our organization. Colonel Rand 
took the subject under consideration, the Commander 
having agreed to search the Records and gather the 
written material, thus relieving Colonel Rand from the 
details of the undertaking. A general plan of the work 
to be done was prepared by him and some preliminary 
data were collected by your Commander, to whom 
it soon became manifest that Colonel Rand would be 
embarrassed in writing the history, inasmuch as the basis of 
it, for twenty-five years from 1881 to 1906, while he filled the 
office of Recorder, would be like a recital of his own work for 
the Commandery. This he would be likely to treat imper- 
sonally, which would be unfair to him and to his wise and far- 
seeing plans, which have brought such important results. 

The collection of material was continued, however, by your 
Commander and is herein presented, but the unrecorded part 
of our history, resting on the personal recollections of Colonel 
Rand, can never be written. His sudden and lamented death, 
December 23, 1917, closed this storehouse of interesting memo- 
ries forever. 

The death of Colonel Thomas L. Livermore, so soon follow- 
ing that of Colonel Rand, January 29, 1918, closed another 
storehouse of memories. These two Companions were elected 
— the one Commander, the other Recorder — at the same 
annual meeting in May, 1881, and in death they were not 
long divided. Peace be unto them! 

Your present Commander, elected a Companion of the 
Massachusetts Commandery on July 7, 1868, at the fourth 
meeting after its organization, has not felt willing to abandon 



FOREWORD 

the work contemplated; to him it has seemed that he has, 
most unwillingly, inherited a legacy of service, and therefore, 
from the Records, from his own memory, from conferences 
with Companions, and from other sources, he has compiled 
this story of the Commandery. 

It is a perfectly legitimate criticism that the compiler of 
these Annals has, ' from time to time, ventured to express 
opinions of his own on subjects under consideration, and 
has to that extent exceeded his province as Annalist. His 
answer is, the subjects upon which he commented are to him 
living subjects, to be now weighed and considered by every 
Companion, as likely to affect the future of the Order. 
If apology is to be made, or excuse found for this intrusion, 
it must be in the assurance that conviction and not pride of 
opinion has guided his pen. To awaken an interest in the 
subjects — to make Companions think and form opinions of 
their own — are the only things he deems of consequence. 
Agreement is a secondary consideration. 

HENRY M. ROGERS, Commander. 
April 19, 1918. 



MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE 

UNITED STATES, COMMANDERY OF THE 

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

The celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of our organiza- 
tion as a Commandery, on March 6, 1918, seems a fitting time 
to make a brief review of our Annals. 

The Register of this Commandery, published in 1912, gives 
the roster of its Charter members, Officers and Companions 
from its institution in 1868 to November 1, 1912. 

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 
was founded April 15, 1865, on the day of the death of 
Abraham Lincoln and because of his death. 

The Commandery of the State of Massachusetts was insti- 
tuted March 4, 1868, was organized March 6, 1868, and was 
incorporated March 15, 1887. There were originally thirteen 
Charter members, who had been previously elected members 
of the Commanderies of either New York or Pennsylvania. 
The following is the list of our Charter members, not one 
of whom is now living: — 

CHARTER MEMRERS 

Rrevet Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius G. Attwood, U. S. V. 

Captain James R. Bell, U. S. V. 

Brevet Rrigadier-General Francis A. Osborn, U. S. V. 

Lieutenant-Colonel William V. Hutchings, LI. S. V. 

Brevet Brigadier-General William Cogswell, U. S. V. 

Lieutenant- Colonel Daniel S. Lamson, U. S. V. 

Captain William Pratt, U. S. Y. 

Brevet Brigadier-General Josiah Pickett, U. S. V. 

Brevet Brigadier-General Augustus B. R. Sprague, U. S. V. 

Brevet Major Louis N. Tucker, L . S. V. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Orson Moulton, L . S. Y. 

Captain J. Waldo Denny, U. S. Y. 

Brevet Colonel Charles N. Turnbull, \J. S. A. 



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At the outset of our history no man was more identified 
with and more prominent in the organization of the Com- 
mandery of Massachusetts than Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel S. 
Lamson of the Sixteenth Mass. Infantry, U. S. V., and to him 
we may bring a tribute of praise and appreciation for self- 
denying and effective service. He was the first of our Senior 
Yice-Commanders and died at Weston, Mass., on May 13, 
1912. The thirteen charter members all became officers in 
the new organization, there being just thirteen positions to 
be filled, and Brigadier-General Francis A. Osborn, U. S. Y., 
was elected the first Commander. 

Whoever reads our Records from 1868 to 1881 must be 
impressed with this feature in our early history: that in the 
many elections to membership of the Commandery which 
rapidly followed its organization the Companions first elected 
were almost exclusively those who had served together and 
were close social or personal friends. This was very natural. 
All were in the freshness of their lives and it is not strange 
that throughout those early years more thought was given to 
strengthening the ties of friendship than to the other, perhaps 
higher, objects of the Order as defined by the Constitution. 
The one object in the early days seemed to be to cherish 
memories and associations of the war waged in defence of 
the unity and indivisibility of the Republic, to strengthen the 
ties of fraternal fellowship and sympathy formed by com- 
panionship in arms, and to leave in abeyance the other objects 
of our Order. 

It must be borne in mind by the gray-haired veterans of 
today that when the Civil War ended in 1865 there were 
hardly any of them more than twenty-four years of age and 
that they were looking at life through young eyes; they 
must also bear in mind that there was not one Second 
Class member by Inheritance or Succession in the Com- 
mandery of Massachusetts until December 6, 1882, when 
Cyrus Manchester Van Slyck, son of Captain Nicholas 
Van Slyck of Providence, R. I., was elected the first Com- 
panion in Succession. 



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Those who participated in the social meetings of the first 
fifteen years of our history recall with emotions not to be 
measured or described the joyous gatherings around the tables 
at Parker's, where General Osborn, our first Commander, 
presided for one year and General Charles Devens for eight suc- 
cessive years; and memory dwells on the decorative and charm- 
ing presence of General Francis A. Osborn, with his genial smile 
and dignified bearing; on the contagious good fellowship of 
General Charles Devens, who became, as time went on, a 
necessary part of every meeting and whose splendid equip- 
ment made him the ideal host, as well as Commander and 
the pride of our Commandery; and these men were immediately 
followed by the gracious Rockwell and the soldierly Martin. 

Around the tables were gathered the men who had helped 
to make the history of our Country, reviving old scenes, 
telling of moving accidents by flood and field, and with 
dramatic or thrilling story, or joyous song, realizing the ideals 
of uncriticising friendship and close comradeship. 

It is true, as has been suggested, that other objects were 
in abeyance. The near past and the glorious present were 
ours, and it was like a social dining club of an alluring and 
sympathetic character, marked by moderation and not excess, 
a brotherhood of equals, of brave, loyal and patriotic men, 
rich in the memories of an epoch of wonderful dignity and 
of far-reaching importance. 

Money from time to time, to be sure, was collected to send 
to comrades of the Army and Navy elsewhere. It was easy 
to raise money for such purposes and there was no lack of 
sympathy, but this object of the Constitution was secondary, 
because the calls were very few and far between. There was 
no definite system beyond the day and the hour formulated 
for the development of the Commandery of Massachusetts 
on the more permanent planes designated by the Constitution. 
In fact, many of the members of the Order at this period of 
our history were lukewarm on the subject of transmission by 
inheritance. They had no sons old enough to become mem- 
bers, and inheritance and succession, like death, were a long 



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way ofT. Sufficient unto the day and let the future look aftei 
itself would fairly express the general attitude of the Com- 
panions. The future was only a name. It was "today" and 
"now" alone that had significance. 

It was a fascinating company, unique in membership, bound 
together by ties of perils and of wounds shared on bloody 
battlefields, by heroisms inciting to profound admiration and 
by memories of comrades torn from their side in the imminent 
deadly breach. What wonder that Comradeship and Friend- 
ship took the lead in our earliest history! What wonder if 
time were needed to turn the current into new channels and 
to subordinate the individual to the great Order and its 
infinite possibihties as a teacher of patriotism to other 
generations! 

EPOCHS OF OUR HISTORY. 

The story of the evolution of the Commandery of the 
State of Massachusetts divides itself naturally into three 
epochs. 

First: From 1868 to 1881, during which time it may be 
said that our organization was like a unique and charming 
dining club. 

Second: From 1881 to 1906. From 1881, with the advent 
of Colonel Thomas L. Livermore as Commander and Colonel 
Arnold A. Rand as Recorder, a new impulse was given to the 
objects other than those of a purely social character as defined 
in the Constitution, and the reports of Colonel Rand from his 
election in 1881, to his retirement as Recorder in 1906, call 
special attention to the following subjects: — 

1. The Charter. The incorporation of the Commandery to 
hold property and develop a Library, Reading Room and 
Museum. 

2. The Permanent Fund. 

3. The formation of a Library and later for a fitting home 
for it. 

4. The abrogation of distinction between Companions and 
as to the Rosette to be worn. 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 7 

5. The placing of fitting memorials to deceased Companions. 

6. The closer affiliation with the Grand Army. 

7. The doubtful value of having Commanders serve for a 
single year. 

8. The Committee on History and its work. 

Third: The third epoch extends from 1906 to the present 
time, 1918, and is a continuation and enlargement of the idea 
of the scope of the Commandery as an incentive to patriotism. 
In the extracts which are made from the reports of Colonel 
Rand as Recorder, for twenty-five years, the writer has en- 
deavored to arrange the subjects substantially as above, 
though, of course, at times one subject runs into another and 
the lines cannot be always clearly defined ; neither can exact 
chronology be observed. 

Despite the desire of Colonel Rand to have the above 
objects clearly before the Companions, it was never his wish 
nor intention, by anything that he said or did, to abridge 
unduly the social side of the meetings, but he did believe in a 
proper moderation and a judicious economy and also in giving 
the preponderance of thought to what he regarded as the 
higher and more lasting duties of the Order. From his retire- 
ment as Recorder in 1906 until his death, December 23, 
1917, Colonel Rand was Chairman of the Librai"y Committee 
and his beautifully illustrated Reports on our Memorial 
Tablets and of the Library of 1913 and 1914 are other and 
permanent memorials of his devotion to the Commandery 
and to the Order. 

THE FIRST EPOCH — 1868 TO MAY, 1881. 

Some brief extracts from the Records from 1868 to 1881 
may be interesting as the current, contemporaneous memorials 
of the hour. They will illustrate better than the assertion of 
the Annalist the nature and general scope of what is herein 
designated as "The First Epoch" and will also recall how near 
to us were the men now barely recalled as names in history. 

One of the significant votes passed at an early day referred 
to the celebration of recurring anniversaries of the Com- 



8 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

mandery. The vote of February 4, 1869, defined a policy and 
it is believed there was no substantial departure from it until 
the celebration of our Fiftieth Anniversary of organization 
March 6, 1918. The vote of February 4, 1869, is as follows: 

''Voted, It is inexpedient to go to the expense of celebrating 
the first anniversary of the Commandery. 

''Voted, That the entertainment shall be as usual." 

The first term of Major-General Charles Devens, as Com- 
mander, began May 4, 1869. On April 6, 1870, on his nomina- 
tion for Commander for the second time, the Committee on 
Nomination suggested that at the stated meeting in June 
there should be an orator and poet and speakers. This was 
rejected. 

On August 16, 1870, members were notified of the death 
at Portsmouth, N. H., of Admiral David G. Farragut, Com- 
mander of the Commandery of the State of New York, and 
were requested to attend his funeral on the following day. 

On May 11, 1871, a Special Meeting of the Commandery was 
held at the Parker House, to give a reception to Companions 
of the Order from other States, who had assembled in Boston 
to attend the Annual Meetings of the Burnside Expedition, 
the Ninth Army Corps and the Society of the Army of the 
Potomac on the 10th, 11th and 12th of May, 1871. 

There were from four to five hundred present at this recep- 
tion at the Parker House, consisting of the Massachusetts 
Commandery and invited guests. The newspapers of the 
following day published long accounts of this meeting and the 
following from the Advertiser (slightly modified) of May 12, 
1871, may be interesting: 

"The Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion of the United States gave a reception to its late brethren in arms 
at the Parker House last evening. The company which assembled was 
composed of some of the most gallant and distinguished officers who 
served in the recent war, and the occasion was one of the most briUiant and 
enjoyable military reunions that has ever taken place in this city. Several 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 9 

pieces from Gilmore's Band were stationed in the hall, and from the time 
the guests began to arrive at about eight o'clock, until they had departed 
at a late hour, music filled the reception room and banquet halls. As the 
more celebrated of the officers were ushered into the presence of their 
comrades, who had already assembled in the parlors of the hotel, they 
were received with demonstrations which evinced the proud yet tender 
feeling of regard in which they were held. The advent of General Hooker 
was hailed, as it has ever been since his arrival in the city when he has 
appeared in the midst of any gathering of soldiers, with hearty cheers and 
warm applause. Amid such a distinguished company of officers, number- 
ing nearly four hundred in all, there were many whose presence was de- 
serving of special mention. Among them were General Pleasanton, General 
Meade, General Hooker, General Fairchild, General Burnside, General 
Humphreys, General Foster, General Sargent, General Wainwright, General 
Kidder, General Dennison, General Grossman, General Griffin, Admiral 
Thatcher, Commodore Steedman, Lieutenant-Governor Tucker, Captain 
Fairfax of the Navy; Colonel Theodore Lyman, Colonel McCauley of the 
Marine Corps; Adjutant-General Cunningham, Adjutant-General Jackson 
of the Sixth Corps, and a host of other men who served their country well 
and are held in high esteem by the Nation. Mayor Gaston and several 
other prominent citizens were also among the guests. 

"About half-past nine o'clock, to the accompaniment of music by the 
band, the guests marched to the dining-hall, where the tables had been 
temptingly and tastily spread with a bountiful supply of refreshments. 
At the head of the hall the presiding officer of the occasion, Major-General 
Charles Devens, Jr., was seated, with General Meade on his right and 
General Hooker on the left. His Excellency Governor Claffin, and a few 
other officers, also occupied seats at this table, while the rest of the com- 
pany remained standing. 

"When the officers had all assembled around the festive boaird General 
Devens welcomed them in behalf of the Commandery which he represented, 
closing his remarks as follows: 'Our association, formed as it is entirely 
for the purpose of social intercourse, without any of the greater objects 
aimed at by other societies, I propose that this meeting, as our ordinary 
meetings, shall be one of social intercourse only. I therefore beg you. 
Companions and guests, to at once assist yourselves to whatever you find 
agreeable upon the table.' " 

The obliteration by General Devens of the "greater objects" 
and the emphasizing of the "social intercourse" as the object 
of the Order reflect accurately the prevaihng state of mind of 
most of the Companions, as has already been indicated. 

On March 7, 1872, the Commandery held its annual recep- 



10 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

tion at the Parker House. The occasion was enhvened by 
music from Gilmore's Band. Many distinguished officers were 
present. 

On February 5, 1873, memorial resolutions were adopted by 
the Commandery to Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, a most dis- 
tinguished and patriotic figure in Boston, before and during 
the Civil War and up to the day of her death. 

On May 7, 1873, at the annual meeting, a resolution was 
offered that no wines or liquors be provided at the expense 
of the Commandery at any of its suppers. This was rejected. 

On December 2, 1874, at a meeting then held, General 
Devens stated he had received information of the distress 
of old soldiers settled in Minnesota and other States of the 
West by the ravages of the grasshoppers and a Subscription 
Committee of five was appointed. On the 3d of February 
following, the Committee reported that they had sent a 
contribution of $300 in aid of the ex-soldiers. 

On April 12, 1875, notices were issued by the Recorder to 
meet at Lexington on the nineteenth instant at the house 
corner of Muzzey and Raymond Streets at nine A. M. This 
was the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Lexing- 
ton, at which President Grant was the principal guest. The 
Recorder's account of this event bears evidence of some 
dissatisfaction with the long march and the great delay. 
Those who were present on that occasion will even now shiver 
at the mere recollection of the sharp wind of that nineteenth 
day of April, as we waited and waited, and will remember that 
General Grant refused to wait any longer as he was due at the 
Pavihon at one o'clock, and drove off to arrive there in time, 
escorted only by those who were nearest to him, ourselves 
among the number, as his bodyguard, rejoicing to be with our 
old Commander once more and now marching to a battlefield 
one hundred years away. 

The Recorder says: "April 19, 1875. The members of this 
Commandery assembled at the house corner of Muzzey 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 11 

and Raymond Streets, in Lexington, at twelve o'clock, 
formed in line mustering about one hundred members, under 
the command of Companion Colonel William V. Hutchings, 
in the absence of the Commander. After a long march and a 
great delay on the route, the Commandery was escorted back 
to quarters by the battalion of Lexington Minute Men. LIpon 
arrival at the house partook of a sumptuous collation, pro- 
vided by Messrs. Parker and Mills of the Parker House, 
Boston. Although provision was made for only one hundred 
persons, yet from four to five hundred persons were provided 
for. In fact, it was the only place in Lexington where ample 
provision had been made." 

From the papers of Tuesday morning, April 20, we learn 
that President Grant was the principal guest; that the day 
was exceedingly cold; that an address, in a large pavilion, 
was made by Mr. Thomas M. Stetson, unveiling the statues 
of John Hancock and Samuel Adams; that a historical ad- 
dress was made by Hon. Charles Hudson; that an oration was 
delivered by Richard H. Dana, Jr. ; and that many thousand 
people were present on this great occasion. 

Of June 17, 1875, the centenary of the Battle of Bunker 
Hill, in which the Commandery participated as a body, the 
Recorder says: — 

"About seventy-five Companions assembled at the Parker 
House, pursuant to notice, at 10.45 A.M.; took up the line 
of march, headed by the Weymouth Brass Band, and pro- 
ceeded to the corner of Beacon and Dartmouth Streets, and 
took place on the right of the third division. After waiting 
three hours and a half they joined the procession, and marched 
en route as published. At Charlestown they partook of a 
collation at house No. 45 Chestnut Street. At six o'clock 
left the house and proceeded to the Navy Yard, embarked 
on board the revenue tug 'Hamlin.' kindly provided by 
Companion Underwood, and were landed at the end of Long 
Wharf. The Commandery was under Senior Vice-Commander 
General Francis W. Palfrey. In the evening a reception and 



12 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

banquet took place at the Parker House. During the evening 
there were over four hundred persons present, including 
guests. 

"Among those present were General Hawley, Admiral 
Steedman, Admiral Nichols, General Kilpatrick, General 
Devens and others, and at about eight o'clock General Burn- 
side was received with hearty cheers. At about an hour later 
General Sherman came in amidst the wildest enthusiasm, and 
the General of the Armies of the United States mounting on a 
chair made quite a long address. At the meeting there was 
also present General Fitz Hugh Lee, who was in Boston and 
who had been waited upon by the Recorder and invited to 
be present." 

On June 7, 1876, there was a grand reception at the Hotel 
Brunswick, which was then under the management of John W. 
Wolcott, one of our Companions, who had invited the Com- 
mandery to partake of the hospitalities of the hotel. 

On February 7, 1877, there were resolutions passed on 
General William Francis Bartlett, who was born June 6, 
1840, and who died December 17, 1876, at Pittsfield, Mass. 

The story of General Bartlett reads like a Romance of the 
Crusaders. Of the Class of 1862 of Harvard, he enlisted as a 
private April 17, 1861; was commissioned Captain on July 10; 
lost his leg before Yorktown in April, 1862. Took command 
of the Forty-ninth Regiment, Mass. Vols., November 10, 
1862, and in the January following rode down Broadway with 
his regiment, his crutch strapped to his back, en route to 
New Orleans. In the assault on Port Hudson, May 27, 1863, 
he is said to have been the only mounted officer on the field, 
either Union or Confederate. He was wounded in the left 
wrist in this assault. When the Forty-ninth Regiment (a 
nine months regiment) was mustered out, Bartlett raised the 
Fifty-seventh Regiment, Mass. Vols., which he took to 
Virginia in April, 1864. He was again wounded May 6, in 
the Battle of the Wilderness. June 22, 1864, he was made a 
Brigadier-General and in July took command of a brigade in 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 13 

the Ninth Corps, then before Petersburg. At the assault, 
July 30, after the explosion of the Mine, he was taken 
prisoner. He was in captivity two months. In June, 1865, 
he returned to active duty, taking command of the First 
Division of the Ninth Corps, but on July 14 the Division 
was broken up and his active service was over. On being 
mustered out July 16, 1866, he received the commission of 
Major-General by Brevet, to date from March 13, 1865, on 
which date he was twenty-four years of age. 

His services in peace were conspicuous. He became 
President and General Manager of the Powhatan Iron Works, 
Richmond, Va., and he constantly preached peace and good 
will and the rebuilding of the shattered fabric of the Union 
on the firm foundations of mutual respect and confidence 
and loyalty to the Republic. 

On the 27th of May, 1904, the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts dedicated a life-size bronze statue to him in "The 
Hall of the Flags," in Memorial Hall in the State House, in 
Boston, with most impressive ceremonies. The oration was 
delivered by our Companion, Brigadier-General Morris 
Schaff. 

On a bronze shield, in the boulder of rough stone over the 
grave of General Bartlett in Pittsfield, Mass., in addition to 
the conventional statement of death and rank, are these 
simple words: — 

"A Soldier undaunted by wounds and imprisonment. 
A Patriot foremost in pleading for reconciliation. 
A Christian strong in faith and charity. 
His life was an inspiration. 
His memory is a trust." 

On April 11, 1877, the Congress of the Order was held at the 
Parker House in Boston. The newspaper accounts say that 
Admiral Steedman presided, with Colonel Mitchell as Re- 
corder. Forty delegates were represented from various States. 
Breakfast was served by the Commandery. At the close of 
the session a banquet was given in one of the private dining- 



14 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

halls to the members of the Loyal Legion only. General 
Palfrey sat at the head of the table. 

On June 6, 1877, a resolution was passed to entertain the 
President of the LTnited States, Rutherford B. Hayes, and his 
Cabinet, on their visit to Boston, June 26, at Young's 
Hotel. The newspapers referring to this entertainment speak 
with enthusiasm of the hearty soldier welcome that was 
extended to the President of the Lnited States and his Cabinet. 
All of the Cabinet were present except Mr. Evarts. General 
Devens was then Attorney General of the United States. 
All shades of political opinion were represented. Among 
those present were General George H. Gordon and Brigadier- 
General William F. Draper. Attorney General Devens of 
the Cabinet of President Hayes and Commander of the Loyal 
Legion, presided. As Commander of the Loyal Legion, he 
appeared first with the President on his right, and then 
Postmaster General Key, Secretary Schurz, General Noyes 
and others of the party, the Governor and Staff following. 
Shortly after the Mayor appeared, and a few moments later 
the banquet was served. Speeches were made and the whole 
occasion was full of good fellowship and of a very high order 
of excellence. 

The Army and Navy Monument on Boston Common was 
dedicated in this year and the Commandery took part in the 
dedication September 17, 1877. General Augustus P. Martin 
was Chief Marshal. It was called a red letter day in the 
history of Boston. Addresses were made by General Devens, 
Mayor Prince and others, at the Memorial Monument on 
the Common. 

At a meeting of the Council on December 27, 1877, Assistant 
Paymaster Charles Fairchild, U. S. N., became one of a 
committee of three to take into consideration the advisability 
of putting aside every year a sum of money for the Permanent 
Fund, and in the same year there came before the Com- 
mandery the question of reducing the price of the entertain- 




ARNOLD A. RAND 

Recorder 1881-1906 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 15 

mentsandof omitting some of the meetings. At the meeting 
of February 6, 1878, Charles Fairchild reported on behalf of 
the Committee, and on May 17, 1878, the June and October 
meetings were dispensed with. 

On April 4, 1879, there were 286 resident and 127 non- 
resident members of the Commandery, 

In October, 1879, the Council had voted to change the place 
of meeting from Parker's to Young's Hotel, and for many 
years following that date the meetings took place there. 

In May, 1881, Colonel Thomas L. Livermore, U. S. V., 
became the Commander of the Massachusetts Commandery. 

Succeeding Major James B. Bell as Recorder, Lieutenant 
Lyman P. French, U. S. Marine Corps, served as temporary 
Recorder during a portion of 1879, and rendered efficient 
service. He was succeeded in 1880 by Captain Edward R. 
Robins, who continued the work begun by his predecessor. 
The attention of the Commandery was gradually turning to 
the higher objects and duties of the Order. 

Upon Captain Robins's declination on the night of the 
Annual Meeting of 1881 to serve longer, on account of busi- 
ness engagements, the name of Colonel Arnold A. Rand was 
suggested for the office, and in his absence and without his 
knowledge, he was elected to that office. 

Up to this time the ordinary attendance at the monthly 
meetings varied from 50 to 75 Companions. On special oc- 
casions it would reach 150, and the expenses of great public 
occasions were usually met partly by voluntary contributions 
from the Companions. 

The report of the Registrar at the May meeting of 1882 
showed a membership of 452 Companions. It will at once be 
apparent by comparison of the above figures that the pro- 
portion of members attending the meetings formed but a 
fraction of the whole membership; that the expenses of the 
social features of the Commandery far exceeded a fair pro- 
portion of the annual dues that had been appropriated to the 



16 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

other objects defined by the Constitution, and that, therefore, 
many members received nothing of present pleasure, or future 
possibihties of pleasure, or benefit, from the Companionship. 
Of course, every Companion had the right to attend all 
functions of the Commandery, but many could not, or did not, 
from absence, from sickness, from non-residence, from 
hundreds of other causes, or from mere inertia. These 
absentees, therefore, received nothing from their membership 
but the badge and the honor of belonging to the Order. 

This inequality of benefits was the foundation of the efforts 
of the new Recorder to give to everybody a fair deal. Bearing 
this in mind, as a sort of compass, the annual reports of the 
Recorder from May 3, 1882, to May 2, 1906, became not only 
storehouses of information, but indices of progress, on a 
clearly defined chart. In no way can the aims and the ac- 
complishments of these years be so adequately brought home 
as by extracts and quotations from the Records of the Re- 
corder in his own words; in no other way, perhaps, can satis- 
factory answers be given to the questions: What have you 
been doing these past fifty years to justify your existence.*^ 
What have you to show as the results of your work.^* 

THE SECOND EPOCH— MAY, 1881, TO MAY, 1906. 

With the election of Colonel Livermore as Commander 
and Colonel Rand as Recorder came the election of a third 
Companion, Major William P. Shreve, as Treasurer, successor 
to Captain William Pratt, a Charter Member, the first and 
up to this time the only Treasurer of the Commandery, whose 
devoted and faithful service had been of great assistance 
to the Commandery. Companion Shreve held the office 
of Treasurer continuously till 1906, working side by side with 
Recorder Rand and retiring simultaneously with him. In 
entire accord as to the needs of the Commandery and its 
mission of usefulness to the City, State and Nation beyond 
its mere social and personal aspect, they labored to build up 
the Great Order and their printed annual reports represent 
their achievement. 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 17 

At this time some progress had aheady been made toward 
the estabhshment of a permanent fund, the beginnings of a 
hbrary, the collection of photographs of members and 
memorabilia of the Civil War. From year to year the work 
went forward with varying progress under the inspiration of 
successive Commanders and the energetic activity of the 
Recorder and Treasurer. An extract from a memorandum of 
Colonel Rand may here be quoted as significant. He says: — 

"The thirteen years of association had worked many 
changes — we were more mature, our civilian duties presented 
new problems, and our Legion membership demanded of us 
new consideration of our obhgations to the Order and a 
recognition of its fundamental principles. Improved methods 
of administration must prevail, and rigid business supervision 
must succeed the easy-going management of a dinner club. 
The election of Colonel Thomas L. Livermore in May, 1881, 
as Commander gave impetus to the new order in business 
affairs and turned attention more seriously to the exercise 
of our energies as a patriotic Order and our duties as defined 
by the Constitution." 



INCORPORATION. 



In the final Annual Report of Recorder Rand, May 2, 
1906, when passing in review the progress of the Commandery 
he says: 

"One of the first things claiming attention of your Roard 
elected in 1882 was the incorporation of the Commandery, 
which however was not accomplished until 1887, when a 
charter was granted by the Commonwealth under the title 
of the 'Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.' Later such 
legislation was had as protected the Insignia and the Rosette 
of the Order and our Statutes punish by fine and imprisonment 
their fraudulent use." 



18 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

COPY OF CHARTER. 

No. 2786 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



BE IT KNOWN That whereas Charles R. Codman, William P. Shreve, 
Arnold A. Rand, J. Henry Sleeper, Henry Stone, H. S. ShurtlefT and 
Edward Sherwin have associated themselve.s with the intention of forming 
a corporation under the name of the Commandery of the State of Massa- 
chusetts Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, for 
the purpose of establishing and maintaining a Library, Reading Room 
and Museum especially for the collection of books, pictures and such other 
articles as may in any way illustrate the war for the suppression of the 
RebelUon against the United States, 1861-1865, and have complied with 
the provisions of the Statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made 
and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer 
and Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of 
Corporations, and recorded in this office: 

NOW THEREFORE, I, HENRY B. PEIRCE, Secretary of the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that said C. R. 
Codman, W. P. Shreve, A. A. Rand, J. H. Sleeper, H. Stone, H. S. Shurt- 
lefl' and E. Sherwin, their associates and successors, are legally organized 
and established as and are hereby made an existing corporation under the 
name of the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion of the United States, with the powers, rights and 
privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions which by 
law appertain thereto. 

Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto afiixed this fifteenth day of 
March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 
seven. 

(Signed) HENRY B. PEIRCE 
(State Seal) Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

II. 

PERMANENT FUND. 

The Permanent Fund was a subject of consideration in 
early days and so continued for many years. In his first 
report May 3, 1882, the Recorder says: "I have the honor to 
represent that experience would seem to show that the ex- 
penditures of the Commandery are largely disproportionate 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 19 

to the amount laid aside for the Permanent Fund. The effi- 
ciency and permanency of the Commandery may depend 
more upon the economy of management and the creation of a 
permanent invested fund than upon the convivial tendencies 
of the organization. Were all the members of the Com- 
mandery assured of financial competency during life it might 
be safe to neglect the accumulation of a fund which in cases 
of necessity may be available for relief of actual suffering. 
The time of our prosperity would seem to be the time for 
preparation for the possible rainy day of the future." 

At a meeting of the Commandery held on May 5, 1875, the 
following resolution was offered by Companion Surgeon 
William Ingalls and adopted: 

"That on and after October 1, 1875, the admission fee to this 
Commandery shall be thirty-five dollars, ten dollars of which 
shall be deposited to the Permanent Fund." 

This resolution continued in force till the special meeting 
of June 6, 1917, when it was rescinded and the admission 
fee restored to the Constitutional requirement of twenty- 
five dollars. The exigencies occasioned by the War of Nations, 
in which the United States entered on April 6, 1917, and is 
still an active participant, seemed to justify, if it did not 
require, this change. When peace is once more restored to 
the world, it is to be hoped that the resolution as passed May 
5, 1875, will once more be adopted to meet the requirements 
of the future development of the Commandery. 

The usefulness of the Permanent Fund has been demon- 
strated again and again and is a subject for watchful and wise 
consideration. 

III. 

THE LIBRARY. 

In the report of May 3, 1882, the Recorder says: "The 
Library of the Commandery would seem to consist of about 
380 volumes, many of them of value and as books of reference 
difficult to replace. These are now packed away in chests. 



20 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

The importance of the estabhshment of Headquarters for the 
systematic transaction of business, and for the preservation, 
care and availabihty of the valuable books already belonging 
to th^ Commandery has been urged by many Companions. 
I recommend such action as may result in the establishment 
of such suitable Headquarters as may render the Library 
available, ensure the preservation of the valuable relics of 
the Commandery, and prove a source of comfort, convenience 
and interest to many non-resident members." 

From this time forward may be traced in every report the 
growth of the Library and albums of war views and portraits 
of the officers and members of the Commandery, the pictures 
of incidents in the war and a mass of material gradually 
classified and arranged so that from the small beginning 
indicated in the early reports we have in the final report of 
1906 commentary upon the Library in the following terms: 

"The formation of a Library of books on the Civil War 
next claimed attention and the Library fund was generously 
dealt with through appropriations and by gifts, until the 
Library has attained such proportions that it ranks among the 
best of such collections. The few photographs of our Com- 
panions which had been received prior to 1881 had been laid 
aside as of little importance and the Recorder was instructed 
to construct albums and complete the collection. In Decem- 
ber, 1897, portraits of every past and present member had 
been received, and although at this time there are still needed 
69 photographs of members who have failed to respond to 
often requests this collection alone consisted of 36 volumes, 
containing 2482 prints. 

"Still seeking to accomplish something which might give 
the Commandery pre-eminence in some special line of work, 
accident suggested the collection of photographs of battle- 
fields, camps and war scenes as well as the portraits of general 
and other officers of the Civil War, and as a result of persistent 
work you have in 131 volumes of this general album together 
with the Commandery album over 30,700 prints, forming a 
collection which has no equal. The acquisition of the Brooks 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 21 

Collection of shot, shell and relics of the battlefields added 
new interest to our rooms, and the flags, paintings and en- 
gravings which cover the walls tell many stories of heroism 
and of pathos." 

The work of Colonel Rand in this department was continued 
after his retirement until the very last day he was at the 
Commandery Headquarters, only a few days before his 
death. At that time your Commander saw him still engaged 
in the work which he had so lovingly fostered for thirty- 
seven years as Recorder and as Chairman of the Library 
Committee and up to his death in December, 1917. 

The first home of the Library may be said to have been at 
No. 53 Tremont Street, Roston, in a room attached to the 
Recorder's office, and later at No. 19 Milk Street, Roston, 
but both of these were only temporary resting places. In 
1901, after the patient and successful work of twenty years 
of waiting, our present Headquarters were established through 
the generosity of the First Corps Cadets in the assignment of 
rooms to us in the Cadet Armory Ruilding. The rooms were 
finished and furnished by the Commandery from contri- 
butions and from the Permanent Fund, supplemented by a 
generous gift from General Wilham F. Draper of $3000. 

The money value in 1905 of our Library plant and its 
collection was estimated at $51,383. In 1914 it was carefully 
appraised and valued at $81,493.52, and at the time of this 
writing that amount has been greatly increased. Therefore 
it may be said that the establishment of the Permanent Fund 
urged in the early days found a part of its great fruition in the 
housing and collection of our Library and memorabiha of the 
war. 

It is a source of regret that there cannot be embodied in 
these Annals the reports of librarians who helped bring to 
fruition this beautiful work. It would be a gratifying task 
to set out in detail the unselfish labors of our Companions 
and others in the formation of the Library. 

One report, that of Major William H. Hodgkins, of May 
4, 1904, is selected to illustrate the enthusiasm back of his 



22 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

work and also as his farewell words to the Commandery, 
as he died September 24, 1905. 

'To the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts: 

"To Companions who remember the Library in the early 
days of its history, or when it was packed solidly into cases 
at No. 19 Milk Street — placed, to use a famihar phrase, 'in 
double column closed in mass,' with new additions crowded in 
rear of the front ranks almost inaccessible — its present condi- 
tion, as deployed in spacious cases in the elegant rooms in the 
Cadet Armory, must be, indeed, a revelation. The treasures 
of albums, portraits, manuscripts, pictures, books, relics 
and memorials gathered in years of indefatigable research and 
labor and liberal expenditure have found in the present 
Headquarters of the Commandery their resting place, we 
hope, for many years to come. 

"The Library is increasing in size and importance from 
year to year and additions are made by such purchases as 
the appropriations will admit of works of general interest, 
and to complete sets of reports in which vacancies are known 
to exist, reserving more extensive additions until the comple- 
tion of the cases in the tower, the work of which is going on 
rapidly, owing to the munificence of our esteemed Companion, 
General William F. Draper. 

"During the past season a careful inspection of the Library 
has been made, a census of volumes taken, and the cash 
value of purchased books approximately estimated. This 
inspection disclosed the interesting fact that the Library 
originated in October, 1877, with one volume, viz. : Nineteen 
Months a Prisoner of War, by Lieutenant G. E. Sabre, bearing 
this inscription: 'Presented by Major WilUam P. Shreve, 
1877,' and the following note; 'So far as I know, this was 
the first book, other than official publications, in the Loyal 
Legion Library. J. H. Aubin.' The number of volumes now 
on the shelves and classified is 3660, including 503 regimental 
and company histories. 

"The Librarian would consider himself derelict in duty 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 23 

did he not call especial attention of the Companions to the 
fact that all the members can co-operate with, and greatly 
aid, the Library Committee in perfecting the Library by 
donating books, views, diaries and publications relating to 
the Civil War that may be in their possession, and that they 
may be willing to donate. Due acknowledgment of such 
gifts will be made in the Commandery circulars. 

"Without referring to the magnificent collection of photo- 
graphs and portraits — a monument to the genius and devotion 
of our Recorder — time would fail to enumerate in detail the 
precious and priceless possessions of the Commandery in 
memorials of the War other than printed books and records. 
The written diaries. Confederate and Union; scrap books, 
prepared with the utmost skill and patience; rolls, orders, 
autographs, manuscript addresses by Generals Sherman and 
Devens; manuscripts by General Grant and many others; 
together with portraits, pictures, battleflags, weapons, and 
priceless relics of battlefields and prison pens, — constitute 
a wealth of material which cannot be measured or its value 
estimated by any arbitrary rule of price or expenditure, — 
a wealth of most fascinating and thrilhng interest gathered 
for all time. Had the Loyal Legion no higher aim, or broader 
view of life and duty, or should it disband tonight never 
to meet again, the collection and arrangement of its materials 
of the War would justify its existence beyond a cavil or a 
doubt. Surely, it could be said, 'the Legion has not lived in 
vain.' • The Library is not a collection of musty, antiquated, 
venerated books. It does not include treasures that have 
come down to us from a hoary past. There is not an old 
book in the Library. With the exception of a few volumes on 
slavery and political causes of the War published before 
1861, there is not a volume fifty years of age. 

"These volumes contain the record of a mighty struggle, 
and all the forces and causes that produced it; all that fol- 
lowed in its wake, all the strife and carnage and exalted 
heroism and patriotism of the gigantic War were concen- 



24 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

trated, focussed into four brief years, and these books and 
relics tell the story of that War. 

"Our Companions' hands wielded those weapons, or held 
aloft those flags; our comrades' pens have told the 
story of the strife in letters and in books. Their eyes look 
into ours as we turn the albums. We see in photographs 
the fields on which they fought, the hospitals and prison 
pens in which they suffered, and the ships which bore them 
to victory. In that place we breathe an atmosphere fra- 
grant with the perfume of their sacrifice of strength, or 
health, or life in their honored service for their country and 
its flag, 

"After years of waiting and perplexity, a safe abiding place 
for our Library, with all its valuable relics and photographs, 
has been provided in a building absolutely fireproof and over 
which the flag shall float every day. Your Boards of Officers 
have not concealed their anxiety, and have urged such 
action as might render our possessions not only safe from 
disaster but their maintenance in such condition that they 
should be available. Your intelligent action by appropriation 
of a portion of the Permanent Fund toward the fitting up and 
decoration of rooms at the Cadet Armory has furnished a most 
satisfactory solution of all questions, and in the early autumn 
it is expected that the whole Library may be reorganized 
and available for use. 

"The cordial welcome of the First Corps of Cadets and 
the generous conditions of our occupancy it is hoped may 
have compensating advantages through an increased interest 
of our Original Companions in the militia branch of the serv- 
ice, additional fine membership in the Corps and an active 
participation by our younger membership in military affairs. 
The Commandery on its part will have not only a safe reposi- 
tory for its valued belongings but a happy association which 
in after years may be relied upon to fill the ranks of both 
organizations, and we shall five amidst such surroundings as 
it will be a pride to show to visiting Companions, and com- 
mensurate with the repute and dignity of the Order. It is 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 25 

not too much to predict that the action of this year may have 
marked bearing upon the prosperity and vigorous existence 
of the Commandery." 

Let us conclude this subject of our great Library with 
extracts from the pubhshed illustrated report of Colonel 
Rand as Librarian in 1914. After a brief prehminary state- 
ment and a reference to the fact that from the date of the 
organization of the Commandery for almost fifteen years 
provisions of the Constitution relative to social intercourse 
alone received attention and called for the appropriation of 
all moneys without provision for a future and regardless of 
the source of our income, he notes that at the time of which 
he speaks, fifteen years after our organization, or say 1883, 
the average age of our membership was scarcely over forty 
years, and an examination of the records shows that the 
average membership of our Commandery from May 1, 1900, 
to May 1, 1914, was 879 men. The average attendance at 
meetings during these years was 298 men, and therefore it 
seemed to the awakened conscience of the Board that moneys 
received from those Companions who were non-residents, or 
while resident members and paying full dues were by reason 
of distance or from any reason whatever debarred from being 
present at meetings, should in some degree be devoted, as a 
matter of fair play, to some other purpose suggested by the 
Constitution than social and convivial entertainment. 

"The Library at the present time, 1914, contains about 
six thousand volumes, many of which were obtained at 
nominal prices in the earlier years, while a recent expert 
appraisal of the books alone shows a sound value of more than 
fifteen thousand dollars. As a working Library it has 
peculiar attractions through its almost complete collection of 
Regimental Histories, while it is rich in Lincolniana, especially 
strong in Confederate publications, and in its many volumes 
covers the whole ground of Slavery, the histories of cam- 
paigns, the reconstruction period and the general literature of 
the Rebellion. There are, in addition to books shown by card 



26 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

catalogue, a wealth of souvenirs and mementoes of the War 
amounting to more than two thousand in number. 

"The pictorial side of campaigns — the scenes of camps and 
fields or fortifications, and ships of the Navy, together with 
the portraiture of officers and men in service, is represented 
by 173 volumes containing over 36,000 prints and portraits, 
and is unequaled as a collection. The autograph letters and 
signatures are a peculiarly valuable and interesting asset, 
and the wealth of manuscripts and items indexed as Docu- 
ments, covering almost every phase of military service in the 
field of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army, form a collec- 
tion the value of which cannot be estimated by any money 
appraisal." 

There is added to that report a form of bequest as follows, 
to which your present Commander urgently calls your atten- 
tion as an opportunity to make wise provision for the Com- 
mandery you love. 

FORM OF BEQUEST. 

The Commandery is incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts and 
the following may be used as a form of bequest : 

"I give and bequeath to the Commandery of the State of Massa- 
chusetts Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 

the sum of Dollars 

General 
for the use of its Library Fund." 
Permanent 

In parting with the fascinations of this unique Library and 
the collections of memorabilia assembled in our Headquarters, 
let us not forget to pay a tribute of grateful appreciation to the 
memory of Colonel Henry Stone, who died in 1896 and who 
beUeved so enthusiastically in the work in progress and gave 
service unstinted and encouragement unlimited. 

Let us not forget the work of J. Harris Aubin, not a Compan- 
ion of our Order, who in 1906 finished his Register of the 
Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 
which was published under the auspices of this Commandery, 
a work of rare accuracy and an authority never questioned, 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 27 

and his further service to us in 1912 in the preparation and 
publication of our Register. 

Let us never forget, nor fail to appreciate, the devoted 
service of Philip A. Jenkins, who since 1906 has been and is 
now our Librarian, One who has ever worked with him is 
constantly surprised at the accuracy and extent of his knowl- 
edge of the Library, the albums, the photographs, portraits 
and memorabilia — in a word, of all that we possess. He was 
associated with Colonel Rand from his retirement as Recorder 
up to the time of his death. He helped to prepare the cata- 
logue of relics, some 2,200 in number, which typewritten is 
bound as a volume. The card catalogues of the Library, 
and of the albums containing over 36,000 photographs and 
scenes are largely his work. This kind of service is incon- 
spicuous while in progress, but of lasting and immeasurable 
value. The Constitution of the Order fails to provide for 
such service — but there should be some way found or made 
by the respective Commanderies to put such men as Mr. 
Aubin and Mr. Jenkins into an Order of Merit, for conspicuous 
service to the Order and the Commandery they have served. 
The writer wishes to express his gratitude for the assistance 
these gentlemen have rendered him in the preparation and 
publication of these Annals, 

On March 4, 1908, Captain Charles Hunt as the Committee 
on Publication wrote the introduction and supervised the 
production, under the auspices of the Commandery, of "The 
Battle of Gettysburg," by First Lieutenant Frank Aretas 
Haskell, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, Aide to Brigadier-General 
Gibbon and later Colonel of the Thirty-Sirth Wisconsin 
Infantry, U, S. V, This publication called attention once 
more to this most graphic narrative designated by high 
critical authority as the best description ever written of a 
battle, not only of the Civil War, but of any war. However 
this may be, it certainly excited not only literary criticism 
but military criticism also, and gave a new impulse to 
investigators and searchers after truth as to the real 



28 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

happenings on those July days, on this greatest battlefield 
of the War. 

A most informing and valuable addition to the literature of 
the Civil War was the publication by our Commandery in 
1888 of "The Other Side of the War," by Katherine Prescott 
Wormeley of Newport, R. I., which deals with the Hospital 
Transport system of the United States Sanitary Commission 
in graphic, photographic letters from the front during the 
Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862. 

Our Library Committee (Companions Rand, Shreve and 
Stone) in the "Prefatory Note" says: "This more personal 
record of the earlier labors of the Sanitary Commission tells a 
story not elsewhere told of how it began and under what 
circumstances it first carried on its heroic work. As such, 
these remembrances of the Hospital Transport Service are 
presented by the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts 
Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States to 
its Companions as a portion of its contribution to the history 
of those eventful days and in grateful acknowledgment of the 
loyalty and devotion of those men and women whose fortitude 
and grace have given to the Sanitary Commission its honored 
place in the story of the great conflict." 

It is impossible to speak of this book adequately, but if 
Companions wish to recall the activities of gracious women in 
those days and of our untiring Companion, Frederic Law 
Olmsted, "who knew everything," let them read this book 
anew. Today in the World War struggle in which we are 
engaged the call upon the women of the world for help is 
unceasing; their place is anywhere and everywhere, as they 
are demonstrating day by day; and let the young women of 
our Country take to their hearts this utterance of Miss 
Wormeley, as true today as when it was written fifty-six 
years ago, when criticism was abroad from the would-be 
genteel : 

"It is false that a lady must put away all delicacy and 
refinement. It is not too much to say delicacy and refine- 
ment and the fact of being a gentlewoman could never tell 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 29 

more than they do here." And of her activities she says: 
"I have asked everyone within reach what day of the week 
it is: in vain. Reference to Mr. Olmsted, who knows 
everything, estabhshes that it is Friday. Is it one week, or 
five, since I left New York?" Again, "Let no one pity or 
praise us. I admit painfulness; but no one can tell how 
sweet it is to be the drop of comfort to so much agony." 

Dr. Robert Ware, who died at his post as surgeon of the 
Forty-fourth Mass. Regt. Vols, during the siege of Wash- 
ington, N. C, March 12, 1863, aged twenty-seven years, was 
a devoted co-worker with Olmsted and Knapp and of the 
same heroic mould as they, in the Transport Service, as else- 
where, and the book of Miss Wormeley in its freshness and 
vigor gives a picture of day by day service, of the self- 
sacrifice and unconscious nobility of the men and women 
of that day, the prototypes of those who today are follow- 
ing in their footsteps. 

The historian, James F. Rhodes, quotes from this book in 
his presentation of the work done by the United States 
Sanitary Commission in our Civil War, and it is significant 
that the call for one million dollars was a serious call; that 
in 1861 and 1862 the people of the jNorth were poor and 
money came slowly; up to October 1, 1862, the whole 
receipts had been less than $170,000. Then came the con- 
tribution of $100,000 from San Francisco, the draft taking 
twenty-five days on its journey. 

With the calls of $100,000,000 for the Red Cross we are 
now familiar and "go over the top," and so will be the response 
to the Red Cross and all its kindred, under whatever name, 
so long as the need exists. The beautiful consecration of the 
people will raise them to a plane worthy of their inheritance. 



30 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

IV. 

AS TO MEMBERSHIP AND ABROGATION OF 
DISTINCTIONS. 

The Recorder's report of May 1, 1895, says: "The year 
has been one of general success and gratifying results, and 
although the elections would seem to indicate that, as far as 
numbers of Original Members of the First Class are con- 
cerned, the maximum has been reached, yet there are still 
many officers resident in New England who might augment our 
ranks did they appreciate all that membership means to them 
and their descendants. 

"The presence of our Companions by Inheritance, and of 
the Second Class, has been a continued pleasure, and their 
increasing interest and activity have been a constant satis- 
faction. It is into the hands of this younger generation that 
we must soon entrust the control of the affairs of the Order, 
and it should be our happy part to so interlock our interests 
and our pleasures with theirs that the association shall imbue 
them with more earnest patriotism and such enthusiasm that 
the Legion shall ever be a centre of loyalty, prepared for the 
emergencies which must arise in maintaining the honor of the 
flag and the blessings of civil liberty. 

"Your attention has heretofore been called to the seemingly 
injudicious and unjust action of the Congress, whereby 
Companions in Succession, inheriting the Insignia of their 
decedent, are prohibited from wearing the ribbon and the 
Rosette, which are theirs as of right. The narrow and selfish 
prejudice which has created and enforced the use of diverse 
rosettes for different classes in the Order can find little to 
justify a continuance of the policy, save the vague fear that a 
generous public may bestow some small praise upon a Com- 
panion by Inheritance, notwithstanding his age, to which an 
actual service man alone might be entitled. It is forgotten 
that the Order is daily more and more representative — a 
memory of service of which the younger generation will soon be 
the only living exponents — and that should the present 




EDWARD JARVIS BARTLE 

1842 - 1914 

SECOND LIEUTENANT 



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A FAITHFUL OFFICER IN THE WAR 
WHICH PRESERVED THE UNION 

AND DESTROYED SLAVERl 
HIS COMPANIONS INARM! 
OF THE COMMANDERY 1 
OFTHESTATEOFMASSACHUSETT, 

OF THE 
Ml LITARYORDER OFTHE LOYAL LEGION 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

HAVE HERE PLACED THIS TABLET 

LEX REGIT ARMATUENTUR 




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MEMORIAL TABLET 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 31 

Constitution continue in force, the well-known Rosette of the 
Legion must absolutely disappear. I assert anew that it is 
the Order alone that should be presented before the public, 
and not confusing distinctions of membership." 

In the Recorder's Report of May 4, 1898, appears this item: 
"The statement that the circular announcing the meeting of 
April was the first one ever issued to the Commandery by the 
present Recorder in his seventeen years of service in which 
there was no application for admission to the Order will be 
significant to many of your minds as showing that perhaps 
our maximum number of Original Companions of the First 
Class has been reached." 

V. 
MEMORIAL TABLETS. 

On the 7th day of November, 1888, a sub-committee of 
the Board of Officers, consisting of Companions Colonel 
Henry Stone, Major William P. Shreve and Colonel Arnold A. 
Rand, submitted to the Commandery for inspection and 
criticism the form of a Tablet, to be cast in bronze, to the 
memory of deceased Companions, and to be erected by the 
Commandery, in special cases, and by the family or friends 
of all other Companions when they so desired. The Tablet 
accepted and adopted was in the form following: — 

The design of the Tablet is a simple border of laurel, dis- 
playing the Seal and the Insignia of the Order and with uni- 
form commemorative wording. Kindred and friends and 
Companions in arms have already placed forty-nine of these 
Tablets in churches, in schools or pubhc buildings, and this 
custom is constantly increasing. There can be no more 
loving tribute, no more enduring memorial to a Companion, 
perpetuating not only the memory of faithful service of an 
officer in war but teaching and inducing patriotic thought 
and stimulating loyalty. 

On the first of May, 1907, a Committee of which Colonel 
Francis S. Hesseltine was chairman submitted a form of 



32 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

Tribute, to be engraved on parchment and sent to the famiHes 
of deceased Companions. This was approved by the Com- 
mandery. Thereafter the reading of resolutions at the dinners 
was dispensed with excepting in special cases and the ne- 
crology of Companions deceased since the previous meeting 
was read and "Taps" sounded. This custom still prevails. 
The engraved tribute is as follows : — 

THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

OF 
THE UNITED STATES 

THE COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 
MOURNS THE DEATH OF 

HIS COMPANIONS IN ARMS HONOR AND 

WILL FOREVER HOLD HIM IN SACRED REMEMBRANCE 

A FAITHFUL OFFICER IN THE WAR WHICH PRESERVED 

THE UNION AND DESTROYED SLAVERY 

VOTED AND RECORDED AT THE REGULAR MEETING 

OF THE COMMANDERY 



Recorder Coininander 

A beautiful design and badge of the Order surmounted 
by the American Eagle. 

M. 
CLOSER AFFILIATION WITH THE GRAND ARMY. 

As to closer affiliation with the Grand Army, Recorder 
Rand says: 

"In August, 1890, occurred the Grand Army Encampment, 
celebrated in Roston. The reception to the visiting Com- 
panions of the order was cordial and the provision ample. I 
but quote from the report of your committee as I comment 
on that magnificent procession of physical and moral forces 
which for six hours wound its way through the streets of 
Boston. Whatever there was of pathos or of inspiration 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 33 

to us, it was the grandest of object lessons to the youth and 
the children who saw it, and its teaching power incalculable. 
To those who stood where they might see the faces of the men 
as they passed, marking the vigor of the strong, pitying the 
feebleness of the poor old veteran as he struggled to march 
once more as of old, admiring the pluck of the cripple as he 
hobbled along on his crutches, to such the thought must have 
come: All these men have done something — perhaps the 
grandest possible, perhaps not the best, but even in feebleness 
of purpose or in absolute thoughtlessness — still something. 

"And today are doing more, still better, more earnestly 
more devotedly, by reason of the very something they have 
striven to do before. This was the grand lesson of the whole 
week. 

"For our part, our welcome was given, the great procession 
passed — the music is but dimly sounding in our ears now — 
the farewells were said, to so many the last, and there remains 
only to us the happy memory and with it a closer bond of 
companionship, increased devotion to patriotism, a new 
inspiration to the present duties of today. 

"It is for such reasons and their teaching power that I urge 
a closer touch with the Grand Army in its highest aims, with 
the people in all patriotic measures, with the younger genera- 
tion in all its earnest work, that loftiest patriotism may be 
inculcated and that by knowledge and appreciation of the 
sacrifices of war, we may be assured of the blessings of peace." 

VII. 

AS TO THE ELECTION OF COMMANDER FOR A 
SINGLE YEAR. 

At a meeting of the Commandery held on the 3d day of 
April, 1889, Major George S. Merrill submitted a Preamble, 
followed by this resolution, which was adopted: — 

"Resolved, In the opinion of the members of the Com- 
mandery there should be no re-election for a second term for 
any Companion for any of the three highest officers." 



34 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

In his annual report of May 1, 1901, Colonel Rand com- 
ments on the effect of this resolution as follows: — 

"I pray you bear with me if I suggest that the election of 
a new Commander each year is not in the best interest of the 
Commandery. The Commander who comes into active 
service in November, and is retired in the following May, 
has just begun to acquaint himself with the duties of the 
office and to reahze all the possibilities and grandeur of the 
Order. Every subordinate officer needs intelhgent super- 
vision, and it does not show the best method when a merely 
clerical executive officer can be charged with 'running the 
Commandery.' Let your Commander, by reasonable re- 
elections, be not only your presiding officer, but the intelli- 
gent supervisor of all your affairs, reahzing that his term of 
office must be marked by new accomplishment for the Com- 
mandery and acts which will bring new credit to the Order, 
but which a single year is all too short to inaugurate and 
complete." 

VIII. 
COMMITTEES ON HISTORY. 

The Committees on History co-operated most earnestly in 
bringing to the attention of the Companions the preparation 
of papers to be read by our Companions on matters of per- 
sonal interest relating to the War in which they were partici- 
pants. The subjects chosen were varied and of most far- 
reaching character. 

Captain Charles H. Porter was Chairman of the first 
permanent committee of seven Companions, appointed in 
May, 1895, and in his first report May 6, 1896, he announces 
that six papers had been read by Companions during the first 
year. 

He was succeeded as Chairman in 1896 by Colonel Francis 
S. Hesseltine, who until 1902 did good service in this work. 
The committee published in book form selected papers that 
had been prepared and read by Companions and entitled, 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 35 

"Civil War Papers," which were received with great interest 
by Companions and are enduring records of the efforts of this 
committee. Major Edward T, Bouve succeeded as Chairman 
and continues Chairman Emeritus to this day. 

Other vokimes should be published from the papers now in 
the possession of the Commandery when the exigencies of 
today are less pressing on our finances. 

Colonel Henry Stone had more to do than any other one 
man with starting the reading of historical papers. There was 
some opposition to the innovation. From the point of view of 
some it changed the character of the meetings, intended to be 
merely social and convivial. If the writer is not mistaken no 
formal announcement of the reading of such papers was in 
early days included in the circulars notifying of the meetings. 
Fortunately, the criticism of the few, even, disappeared and 
the historical paper became a part of the exercises of the 
evening, and this has continued until today and has helped 
make the Commandery what it is. 

It has seemed wisest to the compiler of these Annals to 
quote from the reports of Recorder Rand to the end of his 
term of service as Recorder, thereby giving a fairly compre- 
hensive view of his ideals and his hopes. He had strong con- 
victions, a fair and honest mind and sobriety of judgment. 
He had unusual executive ability, orderliness, accuracy and 
artistic sense. He felt things as an artist. There is hardly 
a page in the Albums of photographs of officers that does not 
bear witness of his skill as an artist. He beheved in the 
Order and he wished to mould the Commandery of Massa- 
chusetts into an ideal Commandery, with a past of high 
achievement, a present of elevated good fellowship and a future 
conspicuous in results, all tending to high citizenship and 
patriotic service. He wished the younger members to share 
in everything that the Order could give to them and his 
heart was very tender to them. "We shall not look upon his 
like again." It is well that he lived to see his hopes realized 
in the Library with its priceless collections safely housed, and 
his ideals crystallized into reahties, as our young Companions 



36 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

were added to our Roll of Honor in the new struggle for 
freedom. 

As a part of our Annals, certain events which have not yet 
been noted must now have space in these chronicles. All 
of the incidents occurred during the Recordership of Colonel 
Rand and no one was more active than he in demonstrating 
the hospitality and good fellowship of our Commandery and 
in directing the functions with rare skill, tact and artistic 
comprehension. In what esteem he was held is indicated 
by the next quotations from the Records. 

PORTRAIT OF COLONEL RAND. 

In March, 1888, it was voted: "That it is the unanimous 
wish of the Commandery that our Recorder, Arnold A. Rand, 
grant sittings for his portrait, to be painted by Comrade 
Edgar Parker, the same when finished to be hung on the walls 
of our Headquarters as a constant reminder of the untiring 
zeal, ability and devotion with which he has conducted the 
affairs of his office in this Commandery." 

Edgar Parker was First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, in 
the 13th Massachusetts Infantry, U. S. V. He was elected 
to our Commandery on April 9, 1882. He was discharged for 
disability from a wound received in the line of duty September 
18, 1863. He was an artist of merit and of unusual skill in 
portraiture. The portrait of Colonel Rand is an admirable 
and characteristic likeness. Lieutenant Parker died April 
9, 1882, at Bridgewater, Mass. 

GIFT OF BRONZE GROUP TO COLONEL 
ARNOLD A. RAND. 

On the 4th of April, 1894, in the presence of about 300 
Companions, Colonel Arnold A. Rand was presented with 
what the newspapers described as "a magnificent bronze 
statuary, consisting of four equestrian figures that expressed 
both life and motion." The group, which measures 33/2 by 
23^2 feet, is entitled "Fantasie Arabe," and was designed by 
F. Shopen, a celebrated Russian artist. It was exhibited at 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 37 

the World's Fair and was purchased expressly for this presenta- 
tion. The base of the group bears this legend: 

THE COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 

OF THE 

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

TO 

COLONEL ARNOLD A. RAND, U. S. V., RECORDER 

IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION OF MANY YEARS 

OF DEVOTED SERVICE 

The whole is mounted on a beautiful pedestal, every part 
of the design being rich, appropriate and costly. 

On that evening Major Henry L. Higginson was nominated 
for Commander. 

Colonel Albert A. Pope, Commander, introduced General 
A. P. Martin, who made a most eloquent presentation address 
to Colonel Rand, begging his acceptance of this gift as a 
heart-offering, and Colonel Rand responded most feelingly. 

In the letter which accompanies the gift occur these words: 

"Recalling the fact that when thirteen years ago you became 
our Recorder the fortunes of the Commandery were in peril 
and its future uncertain, and that we can now point to a 
roll of membership unsurpassed in loyalty and devotion to 
the Order, to the library of Rebellion literature unequalled 
by that of any Commandery, to a collection of photographs 
and relics larger and richer than any other in this country, 
mainly the result of your efforts, we feel that we should be 
wanting in appreciation if we did not in some way recognize 
your unceasing devotion. In every relation we have known 
you a faithful officer, a loyal Companion, an irreproachable 
gentleman. As such we heartily greet you with our love and 
all good wishes. For all your Companions. 

"Albert A. Pope, Commander." 

The newspapers of April 5, 1894, record in the most promi- 
nent way "Honors to Colonel Rand" and their sympathetic 



38 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

appreciation in editorials and otherwise, as in the words of 
one of them, "Colonel Rand certainly deserves all the eulo- 
gistic acknowledgment paid him last evening by his fellow 
soldiers in the Loyal Legion. No one could be a more faithful, 
more devoted officer." 

RECEPTION TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL 
PHILIP H. SHERIDAN, U. S. A. 

"The Commander-in-Chief of the Order, Lieutenant- 
General Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. A., has accepted the invita- 
tion to be present at the meeting of the Commandery at 
Odd Fellows Hall, Boston, Wednesday evening, January 4, 
1888, at 6.30 o'clock," was an announcement that gave un- 
mixed pleasure. 

Subsequently the place of meeting was changed to the 
Hotel Vendome, and then followed a telegram from General 
Sheridan, "It will be impossible for me to be in Boston on the 
4th of January on account of an invitation to the White 
House, which is equivalent to an order. I will promise to 
be present at your regular meeting the first Wednesday of 
February," and so it was. 

A great reception and a most memorable occasion the first 
day of February, 1888, when was assembled such a gathering 
of officers as never had been equaled since the Civil War, 
there being some 425 present to salute the Lieutenant-General. 

Major-General Simon G. Griffin was then Commander of 
our Commandery. 

The newspapers of February 2d gave glowing accounts of 
this gathering; the Boston Herald in large headlines said: 
The Loyal Legion right royally entertained "Little Phil." 
Before the evening entertainment, by the way, the General 
called on the Governor and the Legislature and interjected a 
sleigh ride to whet his appetite. 

One newspaper concludes as follows: "Massachusetts 
members of the Loyal Legion are themselves a remarkable 
circle of men, but the presence of the greatest soldier of the 
Union who still remains in the active service of the Govern- 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 39 

ment made last evening's gathering one amply worthy of 
remembrance. Though civilians figured largely it was still, 
in character, chiefly a soldiers' reunion, resembling perhaps, 
in the after-dinner hour, a campfire more than anything else. 
General Sheridan received a soldier's welcome, which is 
doubtless the kind he finds most natural and congenial. He 
was greeted in effect by the entire Commonwealth and not 
alone by the members of the Legion." 

The Globe of February 2, 1888, in great capitals says: 

THE BRAVE SHERIDAN 
LIONIZED BY HIS OLD VETERANS. 

HIS RECEPTION BY THE LOYAL LEGION WHO HELD A GRAND 
BANQUET IN HIS HONOR. — NOTABLE GATHERING AT 
THE HOTEL VENDOME. — THE GREAT WARRIOR'S 
HEARTY GREETING. 

The following description will recall to those of us who 
were there the appearance then of "Little Phil": 

"The Little General, with his bronzed face, gray moustache and 
imperial was a centre of attraction. General Simon G. Griffin, Com- 
mander of the Massachusetts Commandery, with Colonel Rand did the 
honors of introducing their Companions to the General. During the 
first half hour the ladies of the hotel were formally introduced and received 
a most cordial welcome. Many of the httle tots and youths also were 
welcomed, patted and fondled by the great man. Many of the Uttle boys 
who were inclined to look upon the dashing cavalryman with awe were 
made quite at home by the General, who was glad to see the little men," 
etc. 

The reception of the Loyal Legion was the great event. 
General Devens, who was among the first to enter Richmond; 
General Corse, who was with the Army at Allato.ona ; General 
Hincks, General Hawkins, General Patterson, and scores of 
other officers were there to salute their old comrade. 

General Sheridan died suddenly at Nonquit, Rhode Island, 
on August 5, 1888. In the inevitable shock and confusion of 
the moment there was no one near at hand to think of the 
details necessary to be carried out, and no adequate prepara- 
tion seemed possible. Colonel Rand, without hesitation. 



40 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

started at once with our silk casket flag to Nonquit, saw the 
coffin was draped with it and that everything was properly 
done so the coffin with the mortal body of the great soldier 
might be borne to Washington and later to Arlington Cemetery 
under the flag of the Loyal Legion of which he had been the 
great Commander-in-Chief. 

On November 7, 1888, at a meeting of the Commandery, 
the "In Memoriam" of General Philip Henry Sheridan was 
delivered by General Charles Devens. It is too long to be 
quoted here, but it was a masterpiece of composition^a re- 
view of a great soldier's life and a touching personal tribute to 
his memory. 

THIRD CLASS MEMBERS. 

In the report of May 3, 1899, Colonel Rand speaks as fol- 
lows on the subject of proposing an amendment to the Con- 
stitution which should include the successors of Third Class 
members. He says: "There is one other mattf^r of Con- 
stitutional revision which might well claim your attention. 
The Constitution recognized, through limited membership, 
that magnificent service rendered the country in its dire peril 
by 'gentlemen who in civil life during the Rebellion were 
especially distinguished for conspicuous and consistent 
loyalty.' 

"While the military service of members was accorded 
recognition through Succession and Inheritance, it has always 
seemed incongruous that the unparalleled devotion and con- 
spicuous service of Third Class membership should not stiU 
be recognized under the same restrictions which limit descent 
from members of the First Class, If such service was deemed 
by the founders of the Order worthy of recognition in 1865, 
it is surely today worthy of perpetuation through living 
representation. To these subjects your earnest and mature 
consideration is directed." 

In the report of May 5, 1897, reference is made to the fact 
that the Commandery as a body attended the dedication of 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 41 

the Grant Monument in New York. As to this event he says: 
"The dedication of the monument in New York, at the grave of 
General Grant, was probably the last grand function of 
national importance in which the survivors of the Rebellion 
may join, and it is gratifying to feel that this Commandery 
was represented by its Commander, its banner, flags and 
trumpeters, and two hundred Companions." 

In the same report this pregnant suggestion appears: — 
"There is no subject which may interest our Original Com- 
panions more thoroughly than the continuity and perpetuity 
of the Order which was founded on that sad, memorable day 
when, for the first time in our political history, the assassin's 
hand changed the course of events, and Abraham Lincoln, 
who had so wisely guided us through the perils of war, ceased 
to guide us in the path of peace, 'with malice towards none and 
with charity for all.' It is for sound reasons, it seems to me, 
that it has been repeatedly urged that members, by descent 
and inheritance, should be fully recognized, and that our 
welcome should be most cordial to applicants in the second 
class. While the organization will always be the Military 
Order, its distinctive, characteristic feature of war service 
dies out with its original First Class membership and the 
preservation of its memories, and carrying into full effect of 
its constitutional duties, and its maintenance as a centre and 
nucleus of patriotic action, must devolve upon those who bear 
our names and stand ready for service in the future. So it 
is that I have urged the adoption of one rosette for all classes 
in the Order, and that the younger members have representa- 
tion upon the Board of Officers. 

"By earnest devotion to the principles laid down in the 
Constitution, by careful scrutiny of all applications for ad- 
mission, by dignity in all our service, by a broad compre- 
hension of the changes in administration which must naturally 
result when the original members shall have laid aside all 
burdens and duties for younger lives to bear and perform, by a 
belief that the Order is supreme and the Commandery sub- 



42 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

ordinate, we may meet with new successes and maintain our 
proud position." 

And elsewhere he says: 

"For that younger element I make appeal. Its members 
are bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh — representative 
men in the community — thrilled with the same patriotic 
thought which carried you to the front — living up to the 
height of noble ancestral example. Stretch out to them, then, 
your welcoming hands, give them recognition, grant them 
office, bestow upon them every badge which before the public 
makes them Legion men — give gladly, not grudgingly — 
give freely and give now without even a thought of the 
changes that must come as our vacant places are filled." 

THE ROSETTE. 

The catholicity of Recorder Rand is shown again in this 
extract from his report of May 2, 1900: 

'T have heretofore urged upon your recognition the in- 
justice to our Members in Succession and the injury to the 
Order which results from the multiplicity of rosettes, and at 
the risk of repetition I again call your attention to the subject. 
The Congress of 1889 changed the Constitutional provision, 
which had been in force since 1865, by directing that Com- 
panions in Succession should no longer wear the Rosette 
which the Constitution gives them the right to hold, and in 
effect provided that the universally recognized Rosette of the 
Legion should be forever extinct upon the death of the last 
surviving Original Companion. The injustice which results 
is, perhaps, only a small part of the injury to the Order. 
Every Companion is equally a Legion man, and of whatever 
class, is entitled to the same recognition. Our rosettes are 
not worn in glorification of personal service but as an honorable 
distinction in pubfic and a means of recognition among our- 
selves, and it would seem the broad and true policy to estabhsh 
the one rosette for all classes as the distinguishing badge of 
the Order." 

As a matter of historical interest it may not be out of place 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 43 

to record what is believed to be the exact fact, that the origin 
of the present custom of wearing "buttons" to indicate 
membership in various organizations was the Loyal Legion 
rosette. At first a little red bow-knot of red, white and 
blue ribbon was worn by Companions. Then the present 
"Rosette," designated when it appeared by one critic as 
"a little pork pie affair," was adopted. It was made in Paris, 
presumably on the model of the Legion of Honor (red). 

With the death of the last of our Original Companions, 
as Colonel Rand has said, will disappear their Rosette. This 
was certainly never the intention of the founders of the 
Order. It was to be a perpetual token of membership in the 
Order. To think of its being adopted by another organiza- 
tion and one perhaps of a different character, or to become the 
mere object of curiosity of the antiquarian and not the symbol 
of high service and exalted patriotism of the Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion of the United States, a living Order, fills one 
with regret, not unmixed with wonder how such a thing could 
have come about. 

It may be said, in criticism of your Annalist in presenting 
these extracts from your annals, that these subjects, by the 
mere passage of time, have lost their significance and their 
importance; that they are stale and obsolete and belong to 
the dust heap. It may be further objected that they have 
not been adopted or were the personal opinions of Colonel 
Rand and not those of his Companions, and especially so in 
regard to the kind of Rosette to be worn by Companions of 
the Second Class and of their more rapid advancement. It 
will with truth be said that many of our younger Companions 
themselves are not in accord with the views expressed in 
his reports. One answer to these criticisms is this : that many 
Original Companions were in entire accord with him and still 
are; that many of our Second Class Companions already see 
that the Order is subordinated to the individual by the 
double Rosette ; and the original Rosette, as has already been 
suggested, will disappear altogether with the death of the 
last Original Companion. As has been shown, this certainly 



44 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

never was contemplated in the original Constitution of 1865 
and never made possible till 1889, and then by a change in the 
Constitution. They modestly disclaim a desire for more 
rapid advancement. Agreement and disagreement arising 
from construction of written instruments, from modifications of 
Constitutions, upon questions of wise policy and of far-reaching 
importance must always be expected where thought is free and 
reasonable expression invited. By a unanimous vote of this 
Commandery some of these subjects, though not the one 
relating to the Rosette, were deemed of such importance to 
the Order that they were embodied in the suggested changes of 
the Constitution presented by your duly instructed delegates 
to the last Congress assembled at Philadelphia, April 18, 1917, 
Something of this Congress will be alluded to later in these 
Annals. 

In the Recorder's Report of May 2, 1906, appears the 
following : 

"In rendering this, my final report, after twenty-five years 
in which you have honored me by official position and in 
which the work inaugurated in 1881 and promoted by your 
successive Boards of Officers has brought its results, may I be 
pardoned if I call your attention to some of the changes which 
have taken place. The report of the Registrar in 1882 
credited us with a membership of 452, and the number 
gradually increased until in 1898 we attained our maximum 
strength of 945, since which time there have been various 
fluctuations of figures, and we now show a membership of 935, 
Of the membership of 1882 less than twenty per cent remains 
with us today. In 1881 there was not one Hereditary or 
Second Class Companion. In 1882 our rolls showed that 64 
Companions had been claimed by death and now there are 
borne on our Register the names of 554 Companions who 
have passed beyond our sight." 

THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE LOYAL LEGION, 

On March 8, 1888, there was a report of a committee of 
conference with the Trustees of the Cadet Armory, wherein 




THE CADET ARMORY 



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"the Trustees offer to the Loyal Legion a permanent home 
in the building which it is proposed to erect on Columbus 
Avenue, near the Providence Railroad Station." The 
general details follow and the recommendation is made that 
the proposition have most careful consideration and be 
assigned for action at the April meeting. At the April 
meeting a committee of twenty-five Companions was 
appointed to carry out the details of the proposed Head- 
quarters to be erected in connection with the Cadet 
Armory. From these meetings and the work that followed 
came our Headquarters. 

THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 

ORDER. 

The fifteenth day of April, 1890, was the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of the foundation of our Order. The Com- 
mandery of the State of Massachusetts reported in Phila- 
delphia on that day in full numbers, to do honor to the invita- 
tion of the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania and to 
the great occasion. General Charles Devens was the Orator 
chosen by the united voice of the committee of selection that 
had been appointed. With great reluctance he accepted the 
honor. Those who heard the Oration will never forget the 
dignity of the Orator nor the deep impression he made upon 
the vast assembly that listened to his words. This is not the 
place to record the occurrences of that memorable occasion. 
The published volume of the Commandery of Pennsylvania 
tells its salient features; but the appearance of the assembly, 
the names of the men upon the platform surrounding Major- 
General Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, 
the Commander-in-Chief of our Order, and those others in the 
body of the great Academy of Music, brilliantly draped with 
flags and emblems; the array of beautiful women, the almost 
electric vibrations that went through the audience can never 
be forgotten nor even described. The climax came when 
General Devens closed with his touching peroration and 
brave men did not try to restrain their tears. Shall we not 



46 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

write down once again the words of General Devens in closing 
his Oration? They are for us today: 

Companions, my brief task is ended. In the conflict and in the 
years that have followed, half of what were once our numbers, it is probable , 
have passed the barrier that separates the seen from the unseen world. 
They are the advance of that army of wliich we are the rear-guard. Some- 
where they have halted for us, somewhere they are waiting for us. Steadily 
we are closing up to them. Let us sling on our knapsacks as of old, let us 
cheerily forward in the full faith that by fideUty to duty, by loyalty to 
liberty, by devotion to the country wliich is the mother of us all, we are 
one army still. 

Who can ever forget the gathering at the Pennsylvania 
Academy of Fine Arts on the evening of April 16. at the recep- 
tion given to Ladies and Companions by the Commandery of 
Pennsylvania.^ General Hayes, President of the United 
States and Commander-in Chief of our Order, was of course 
the principal guest, and he was surrounded by a brilliant and 
notable company of Companions. 

That evening the writer accompanied General Devens to 
this reception. The General seemed greatly fatigued and 
leaned rather heavily upon the arm of his escort. The love 
long felt for him had grown, if possible, by his words of the 
night before. He had told his friends in Boston weeks before, 
and more than half in earnest too, that to prepare for the 
occasion and to deliver that oration, with his other duties, 
would kill him; and they had laughingly replied he could 
not die in a better cause. Arnold Rand told the writer of 
this circumstance, for Arnold was close to General Devens in 
this matter, and the oration as prepared was read and sub- 
mitted to him and some others before delivery. 

On the return of the Commandery to Boston, at the meeting 
of May 7, 1890, resolutions were adopted thanking the Com- 
mandery of Pennsylvania for all the courtesies extended and 
closing with these words: "For all the proud memories so 
vividly revived, for all the high resolves, the stimulated 
patriotism and increased loyalty, for all the thoughtful 
attentions and the lavish hospitality, which will ever make 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 47 

the celebration a happy remembrance, this Commandery is 
profoundly grateful." 

Many of the Companions who had assembled at Phila- 
delphia for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary 
joined in a great excursion to Gettysburg, April 17-18, 1890, 

Many members of the Commandery of Massachusetts 
participated in this trip to the memorable battlefield 
where so many of the Companions from all the States had 
played their part. 

It is beyond the scope of these Annals to try to reproduce 
the emotions of that gathering. The Campfire, assembled on 
the evening of April 17, will be recalled as a rare and never to 
be forgotten evening. 

GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT. 

At the Grand Army Encampment held in Roston, August 
11-14, 1890, a great number of Companions from other States 
were present. Open house was kept at the Algonquin Club 
during these days. Hundreds of visitors came to us and were 
cordially welcomed and on August 14 an excursion in Roston 
Harbor was arranged by the Commandery at which General 
William T. Sherman was the notable guest. If anything 
were omitted in hospitality during these three days it was cer- 
tainly from failure of imagination and not of good will, and the 
expressions of appreciation of Comradeship from our friends 
seemed to lack nothing in sincerity. To live over those days 
in memory repays one for the task of examining old records. 

In a characteristic letter from General William T. Sherman 
to his brother John, from New York, July 22, 1890, he thus 
delivers himself anent this celebration : 

"I had a letter from General Alger yesterday, asking me to 
ride in a procession at Roston. August 12, in full uniform, to 
which I answered No with an emphasis. I will attend as a 
delegate from Missouri, as a private, and will not form in any 
procession, horseback or other. It is cruel to march old 
veterans five miles, like a circus, under a midday sun for the 
gratification of a Roston audience." 



48 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

Notwithstanding which the veterans marched and Hved 
through it and lived even through the festivities arranged 
for them by the various organizations and citizens at large 
for their pleasure during their visit among us, a real test of 
physical capacity and endurance. 

On April 27, 1897, the dedicatory exercises at Grant's Tomb 
in New York were celebrated, as has been indicated, with 
more than royal ceremony and honor. A veritable day of 
the Republic. In addition to the allusions already made of 
the event, it may be written that the steamer "Plymouth 
Rock" of the Fall River Line was chartered for the sole use 
of this Commandery and the Cadets. Our then Commander, 
Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Charles P. Clark, had three 
hundred Companions with him at the dedication, and the First 
Corps of Cadets was indeed worthy of its high record in bear- 
ing and soldierly quality. A sergeant and twelve men from 
Rattery A, Mass. M. V. M., were the escort of our Loyal 
Legion colors. The story of that day has been fully told in 
print and may not be repeated here. Enough that we were a 
part of that great assembly to do honor to the memory of the 
man who had led our armies to victory, but who, in the moment 
of that victory at Appomattox, as on his own death-bed, had 
but one thought for his Country: "Let us have Peace." 

THE THIRD EPOCH— 1906-1918. 

Colonel Rand was succeeded in the office of Recorder in 
1906 by Captain Charles H. Porter, a fine officer and a most 
loyal Companion. In his first report of May 1, 1907, Captain 
Porter calls attention once more to the desirability of electing 
new members and says: "The necessity of filling up our ranks 
must appeal to us all, and it is wise that all of us should be 
recruiting officers, and in looking forward to the next year 
let me hope that a large accession to our ranks will be made. 
In closing the year's work it is my pleasure to return to all 
members of the Commandery my sincere thanks for their 
kindness and courtesy to me during the past year. It has 
been a pleasure to serve where only kind words have been 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 49 

spoken and appreciation of endeavor to do the work faithfully 
and subserve the best interests of the Commandery." That 
was the spirit of Captain Porter unto the end of his life. 

In November of this year the stated meetings of the Com- 
mandery were held at the American House, Boston, and that 
continued as our usual meeting place for many years. 

In the report of May 1, 1908, Recorder Porter again calls 
attention to the fact that our ranks are growing thinner and 
forty-six Companions have answered to their last roll call, 
and then he adds these words, more pertinent today than ever 
before : 

"There are many persons eligible to membership who are 
not enrolled in our Order. Every one of us should be 
recruiting officers to fill our ranks. Let me hope that our 
enrollment will be larger next year than this. To bring 
this about all our influence should be used to reach the 
result suggested." 

THE VISIT TO ANTIETAM AND GETTYSBURG. 

Between April 26 and May 1, 1909, during the term of 
Recorder Porter, a very memorable visit was paid by the 
Commandery, in full numbers, to the battlefields of Antietam 
and Gettysburg, under the direction of Captain Charles Hunt, 
Major Charles B. Amory and Companion Wilham F. E. 
Roelofson. To those who participated in this excursion 
there could be nothing but uphfting memories and sense of 
obligation. For that brief period at least men lived over 
again the days of war and battle, when the future of a great 
Nation was the terrible stake. At Antietam the Commandery 
placed a wreath of Spring flowers upon the monument of 
General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, marking the spot where he fell. 
His son, our Companion and present Commander, Brigadier- 
General Samuel M. Mansfield, at the time of his father's death 
was just graduated from West Point and was in Washington on 
his way to join his father at Antietam, when he learned of his 
death. Forty-seven years after his father's death he joined 
us in this touching service of honor to the immortal dead. 



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In Gettysburg many old scenes were revived and men told us 
of the spots made sacred to them by memories beyond the 
possibility of expression, and theCampfire at Gettysburg and 
the speeches and songs of that evening linger still like echoes of 
a wonderful night. 

In the report of May 1, 1910, Recorder Porter gave the 
total membership of the Commandery as 843 ; the net loss for 
the year was twenty-three; there were admitted during the 
year twenty-five. 

On May 1, 1911, he says: "Constant additions have been 
made to the Library. The photographic library is still pre- 
eminent in every respect." 

In this report occurs these concluding words, virtually his 
farewell to the Commandery: "The Library, the photographic 
collection and the relics are still under the care of the Com- 
panion (Rand) who has had it for so many years. The wish 
expressed in last year's report that all Companions, with their 
sons and grandsons, should visit the Headquarters at the 
Cadet Armory, is repeated, and I am sure that every one who 
devotes a little time to viewing this collection will be amply 
repaid. The Recorder regrets that circumstances entirely 
beyond his control have prevented him from attending the 
last four meetings and hopes to meet them with renewed 
strength at the November meeting." 

This was not to be. Captain Porter died on August 10, 
1911 — honored, trusted and beloved. 

Captain Charles W. C. Rhoades, who had served as Regis- 
trar, succeeded Captain Porter as Recorder and the report of 
May 1, 1912, is his first printed report. All of its recommenda- 
tions apply to today. Its length forbids its entire insertion 
in this place, but enough will be quoted to show how fully and 
enthusiastically he assumed his office. 

"There have been held during the year from May 1, 1911, 
to April, 1912, inclusive, seven stated meetings of the Com- 
mandery, with an average attendance of 257. 

"Assuming duty as acting Recorder and as the successor of 
Captain Porter, I found myself confronted with questions 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 51 

and conditions which were practically as new to me as they 
would be to almost any of our Companions, and I ask your 
patience while I recount some of my impressions. The 
Permanent Fund, the income of which may be used for any 
purpose not limited by terms under which certain portions 
were created, is a guaranty of solvency and should be invaded 
only in cases of extreme expediency or of dire necessity, and 
it is evident that endowment of the Commandery by gift and 
legacy is the urgent necessity that all the objects of our 
organization may be impartially dealt with and that Heredi- 
tary membership may be made attractive without imposing 
a financial burden upon those who must soon be the con- 
trollers of the destiny of the Commandery. 

"The active service men of the Rebellion are fast closing 
their records as each circular tells of depletion in their ranks, 
and when it is comprehended that the ratio of Hereditary 
membership is now about 42 per cent., it becomes apparent 
that it is a duty to welcome a Junior membership and make 
possible the easy financial position of the Commandery. The 
Library has by gift and judicious purchase made substantial 
gain and is of ever increasing value, recognized and appreciated 
through constant use. The Library Committee has been 
enlarged as a distinct recognition of the interests of our 
Junior membership, and now consists of Colonel Arnold A. 
Rand, Major William P. Shreve, Major Edward T. Bouve and 
Companions Frank E. Peabody, R. Henry VV. Dwight, 
William F. E. Roelofson and the Recorder. Appeal is made 
on behalf of this committee for all Civil War books, pamphlets, 
relics and photographs and the concentrating of all such 
material in our fireproof quarters. I cannot urge too strongly 
that provision be made for the erection of Memorial Tablets 
and for the expense of special ceremonial as we tenderly lay at 
rest the bodies of our Companions." 

It was during this year that some meetings were held in the 
Cadet Armory in Boston and only a portion of them held in 
the American House. In the report of the Recorder for May 
1, 1913, he says: 



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"The meetings at the Armory have been well attended, and 
the efforts of the officers to make them in every way attractive 
and enjoyable seem to be fully appreciated from the urgent 
solicitation of many Companions that they may be continued 
next year. The cordial manner in which we are received by 
the Corps of Cadets and the generous conditions accorded us 
deserve our warmest praise. Under the auspices of the Com- 
mandery there has been published this year a Register of the 
Companions of the Massachusetts Commandery from its 
organization to November 1, 1912, and it has been distributed 
to Companions, Commanderies, hbraries, etc., being earnestly 
desired by all public libraries and others interested in the 
Military History of the Civil War. The issuance of the 
Register is a gift through the legacy of Mrs. Mary L. Peabody, 
as a memorial to Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver W. Peabody. 
Appeal is again made by the Library Committee for all books, 
pamphlets and rehcs of the Civil War. 

"I am impressed profoundly by the lack of knowledge, 
apparent on the part of many Companions, of the valuable 
collections and library of the Civil War deposited at our Head- 
quarters at the Cadet Armory, and would earnestly recommend 
a fuller conception by personal inspection and greater use of 
this fine collection." 

It was in 1912 that Colonel Arnold A. Rand became the 
Commander-in-Chief of the Order consequent upon the death 
of Lieutenant-General Arthur MacArthur. Our Recorder 
comments as follows upon the circumstance: "The whole 
Order has again been called upon to mourn the death of our 
Commander-in-Chief, whose life and service have made his 
name universally respected and beloved. The flattering 
recognition of this Commandery in having one of its Com- 
panions elevated to Commander-in-Chief inspires us with 
greater zeal for the efficiency of our service to the Order." 

In the report of the Recorder of May 1, 1914, he says: 
"That economy and retrenchment in the expense charged to 
the GenereJ Fund are necessary is clearly indicated by the 
report of your Treasurer. An appeal might well be made" 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 53 

—and the Recorder does not hesitate to make it — "to place 
the Coramandery upon a safe and satisfactory financial basis 
through gifts or bequests to the various funds by those who, 
without detriment to family interests or charity funds, 
whether in large or small amounts, might consider the Com- 
mandery a worthy object of their interest and so appeeJ for 
special recognition. The historic interests of the Commandery 
have received the earnest attention of the Committee on 
History, and the papers presented before the Commandery 
have been of a high order, replete with instruction, inspiration 
and personal narrative. 

"The Library Committee has been active in its section of 
this work and the valuable additions to the Library have shown 
a breadth of view as presenting through selections of newer 
publications the efforts which both North and South are 
making in furnishing material for the eventual history of the 
great problems of 1861—1865, which not only preserved 
forever the Union of States, but revolutionized the methods of 
strategy, sanitation and naval construction. With marked 
additions to our relic collections, all such property has been 
catalogued and the items properly arranged and numbered, 
while additions to the photographic and pictorial collections 
have been material and valuable. That the Commandery has 
accumulated such a mass of valuable property, as is shown by 
recent appraisal, is a subject for special pride and congratula- 
tion. 

"The sentiment which inaugurated special funeral honors 
to deceased Companions has had continued expression as, 
with the diminishing numbers of our Original Companions, our 
Requiem has been rendered and the sweet and solemn notes 
of 'Taps' have paid our last tribute of tenderness to those who 
now await us in the new life beyond. There can be little of 
sadness in such thought, for as the men of war service pass 
from our view we can well know that their places are being 
filled by the younger lives — the Hereditary successors — who, 
proud of their heritage, will forever maintain the high ideals 
of the Legion and will make it perpetually the nucleus of 



54 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

patriotic sentiment and heroic service in civil life or in suc- 
cessive emergency. 

"That the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts will 
stand in the future, as it has in the past, for dignity in method, 
for loyalty in service, and for devotion in the interests of the 
Order, is the duty which rests upon us all. I would call 
attention to the report of the Registrar, by which it will be 
noted that forty-six Companions have passed away in the 
past year. The necessity of filling up the ranks must appeal 
to us all; there are many persons eligible to membership who 
are not enrolled in our Order. Let us hope that our enrollment 
will be larger next year than this." 

In this year, on April 15, 1915, occurred at Philadelphia the 
fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of our Order, and again 
the Commandery of Massachusetts, under its Commander, 
Brevet-Colonel Nathaniel Wales, participated with full ranks 
of Original andSecond Class Companions in the great celebra- 
tion. The account of this has already appeared and been 
distributed by the Commandery of Pennsylvania, but it 
should be recorded that it was once more our privilege to 
meet our Recorder-in-Chief, Colonel John P. Nicholson, and 
to share his memories of the past and to join with the Com- 
mander of the Commandery of Pennsylvania, General Henry 
S. Huidekoper, in the celebration of the occasion. As a matter 
of record, too, it should be said that the address on the occasion 
was made by Brevet Brigadier-General Thomas H. Hubbard 
of New York. 

Many faces of the twenty-fifth anniversary were wanting 
it is true, but the spirit of the occasion and devotion to original 
ideals were as conspicuous with the younger members as they 
had ever been with original Companions. The Recorder in 
his report of May 1, 1915, comments upon this meeting in 
eloquent terms, and it may be well to perpetuate here certain 
names and certain portions of this report: 

"The Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Order 
brings to us memories of pathos and pride. The 'dread 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 55 

artillery of time' has changed the character of our membership, 
but has also brought to us new vitality ; the ascendency of our 
Hereditary membership assures us that even though we have 
followed to the grave this year forty Companions and have 
lost our last member of the Third Class, the Commandery is 
still strong in force and effectiveness. This Commandery has 
never been active in recruiting, but the time seems to have 
come when it is proper that every Companion should exert 
himself and bring to the Commandery a large increase in 
membership which shall assure of perpetuity and lasting 
successes. The time for association with those of actual 
service during the Rebellion is fast passing and personal con- 
tact and knowledge of traditions and methods will best equip 
the Junior element for efficient service and control. 

"The Commandery can point with pride to the fact that it 
filled to the full Constitutional limit its Third Class Member- 
ship and thereby recognized the loyal devotion of civilians 
without whose aid our service might have proved a failure and 
ended in disaster. It is with pride that we regard the names 
of members in the Order, through this Commandery, who 
typified the classes of civilians which, in diverse fields, repre- 
sented the sustaining power behind the Goverment. While 
military service of members is accorded recognition through 
Succession and Inheritance, it has always seemed incongruous 
that the unparalleled devotion and conspicuous service of 
such men should not still be recognized under the same 
restrictions which limit descent from members of the First 
Class, and since a Committee has been appointed to revise the 
Constitution it is hoped that the next Congress will take 
suitable action in this matter and also on the subject of 
reasonable collateral inheritance. The cordial relations which 
have always existed between the Legion and the Grand Army 
of the Republic lead me to suggest whether it is not both com- 
petent and expedient that our members in both organizations 
should take a look into the future. 

"The men who were with us and of us fifty years ago are 
passing, with ever increasing certainty, to the other side of 



56 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

the dark river and in sadly few years the Grand Army will 
have become history. Pathetic as it is, there can be no sur- 
vivors. What is to become of the records of the Posts, of the 
diaries, the relics, the invaluable papers now in the hands of 
the various Posts.^^ Is it not reasonable that, joining with the 
valuable Library and collections of the Legion, there may even- 
tually be established a great central museum where shall be 
placed all historic remembrances of the Rebellion, and the iden- 
tity of each organization be still preserved.^^ May not our men, 
members of both organizations, properly present this subject.** 

"There is another matter to which I ask your earnest atten- 
tion. Our obligations to the First Corps of Cadets are many. 
We hold our Headquarters and our Library rooms through 
their graceful courtesy and it would seem to be our duty as 
well as our pleasure to subscribe to the eclat and prosperity of 
the Corps by such substantial aid as can be given by our War 
Service men, who have passed the age of activity, through 
fine membership in that organization and gladly pay the small 
annual fee which entitles to many privileges. And for our 
Hereditary Class, where can there be a better training school 
for those upon whom the responsibilities of military office or 
service may at any time rest.** The sacrifice of time in active 
membership, the exertions of drill and the subjection to 
discipline will be well rewarded, should future service be 
demanded of every patriotic citizen. Accessions to our 
Library and collections have been many, but there is much 
that can still be added and the fostering care and personal 
interest of each Companion is needed for complete success. 
Contributions to the current fund and endowment by legacy 
is earnestly urged. The service of fifty years ago is now only 
a page of history or a memory. Loyal service today is due to 
the Order and the duties of good citizenship are ever present 
that the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts may 
maintain its high rank in the Order and be always a centre of 
patriotic thought and act." 

It is an eloquent report from beginning to end, worthy of the 
occasion and worthy of the Recorder. 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 57 

The report of the Recorder of May 1, 1916, covering the 
time from May 1, 1915, has in it some words of deep significance 
and brings to us some very tender memories. 

"The Commandery has been called to mourn the death, 
while in office, of two of its Board who have been devoted to 
its interests, and no higher tribute can be paid to our Chaplain, 
Reverend Arthur Little, and our Commander, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Francis S. Hesseltine, than the affectionate remem- 
brance of our membership. 

"The Library Fund has been well and judiciously ad- 
ministered and the acquisition of books by purchase has made 
more notable our well-balanced Library, while the collection 
of Civil War and Grand Army medals has developed a valuable 
and interesting addition to our services and mementoes. The 
meaning and the inspiration of the Order may well be empha- 
sized in these days, when preparedness for any emergency has 
become the theme of our lives, and it is our part to see that 
the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts shall be 
found ever ready to maintain its traditions." 

The year 1916-1917 is memorable in the history of our 
Country, of our Order, and of our Commandery, for it was on 
the sixth of April, 1917, that the United States actively joined 
the Allies as a participant in the World War, raging since 
August, 1914. The young men of our Order, throughout the 
country, have demonstrated that they are indeed worthy sons 
of worthy sires and have proved themselves eager to do their 
share in bringing about a lasting peace to the world. 

In the month of May, 1916, the Massachusetts Commandery 
joined in the great "Preparedness Parade" in Boston, and it 
was with mingled feelings of pride and pleasure that the 
Companions saw at the head of their procession, side by side 
with our then Commander, Colonel Charles F. Morse, Major 
Henry L. Higginson, our second and oldest living past Com- 
mander, marcliing at the head of his Companions, erect and 
soldierly as ever. Remembering the service of these two 
men in the field and in private life, it is no wonder that we 
marched with the elation of younger days. 



58 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

No one who participated in the parade that day can ever 
forget the enthusiasm with which our ranks were received by 
the onlooking thousands that hned the streets, for they 
reahzed, as did we ourselves, that it probably was the last 
time we should ever march together as a unit to demonstrate 
publicly our faith in God, our fidelity to the United States of 
America, and our belief in the great principles for which 
Abraham Lincoln lived, suffered and died, which alone will 
bring equality of opportunity to a crucified and emancipated 
world. 

CONGRESS OF THE ORDER AT PHILADELPHIA, 
APRIL 18-19, 1917. 

The Congress of the Order was held in Philadelphia on 
April 18-19, 1917. Your Commandery was fully represented 
as prescribed by the Constitution. 

The Commandery of Massachusetts had considered and 
matured proposed amendments to the Constitution, con- 
vinced that the Constitution needs substantial changes to 
make it a practical working instrument in harmony with the 
great changes that have taken place and must inevitably take 
place from the mere passage of time. The proposed changes 
contemplated, among other things, a return to the original 
Constitution on the subject of Collateral Descendants as 
applied to membership. A similar provision was offered by 
the Commandery of the State of Vermont. 

At the meeting on the 19th of April there were but thirteen 
Commanderies present or represented; therefore, by no 
possibility could anything offered at that meeting be enacted 
as an amendment to the Constitution, inasmuch as three- 
fourths of the twenty-one Commanderies are necessary to 
carry an amendment to the Constitution. An informal vote 
was taken upon the various matters submitted by the 
several Commanderies and the thirteen States present voted 
and divided equally on the subject of the amendment 
regarding Collateral Descendants. One Commandery, hav- 
ing two representatives only, divided its vote. 



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The Congress was not adjourned to another time and place 
and consequently every possibility was closed to a Constitu- 
tional amendment for four years, unless by the voice of the 
Commanderies themselves an extra Congress be called. To 
wait four years for the assembling of the next Congress is 
itself fatal to any action, humanly speaking, so far as 
Original Companions are concerned, for every one of the 
Original Companions must now be living on borrowed time, 
if the words of the Psalmist have any significance; probably 
the average age of such exceeds seventy-five years. 

To us, Original Companions, it should be regarded as a high 
privilege to be associated with the younger members of this 
Commandery; we should push them to the front in the offices 
and in the work of the Commandery. It is to them the Order 
must soon look for its future influence on individual character 
and unselfish devotion to the great ideals embodied in its 
Constitution. They are fully competent to carry forward the 
work and no one need fear they will fail in any duty or responsi- 
bility time may impose upon them. 

At the annual meeting of the Commandery of the State of 
Massachusetts in May, 1917, the writer was elected Com- 
mander, an honor duly appreciated but carrying with it a 
feeling of responsibility that dwarfed all personal considera- 
tions. On that evening our Registrar, C. Peter Clark, 
reported that we had lost fifty Companions by death since the 
preceding May. The first duty that presented itself to your 
new Commander was to endeavor to bridge that terrible gap. 
In May, 1875, a resolution had been passed whereby the 
admission fee had been increased from $25 to $35, with the 
proviso that $10 thereof should be added to the Permanent 
Fund. Intimations had been recently and constantly received 
that the admission fee bore hardly upon many would-be 
members because of the exigencies arising out of the existing 
war and the increasing demands upon their resources. 

A special meeting of the Board of Officers in May, 1917, 
took into careful consideration the various questions that had 



60 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

arisen and it was unanimously voted to recommend to the 
Commandery a revocation of the above resohition and a 
restoration of the admission fee to the Constitutional require- 
ment of $25. A special meeting of the Commandery was 
held June 6, 1918, the question was submitted to the Com- 
mandery and the resolution of May, 1875, was rescinded and 
the admission fee made $25. 

On June 8 a circular was sent out asking the earnest co- 
operation of all Companions to join in the needed work of 
filling up our depleted ranks. The response was very gratify- 
ing. The Original and all other Companions united in the 
presentation of new names and at the close of the year, April 
30, 1918, forty-one new members had been added to our rolls, 
many of them the sons of Original Companions long eligible 
but not yet members, and thereby our most cherished names 
have been perpetuated. This work must go on — ever forward, 
for it is ever necessary — being the life blood of our great 
Order. Companions, do not grow weary, for there are many 
names yet to be enrolled, the sons of Companions living or of 
those gone before, who only need a word to have them stand 
with us in our new battle with the forces arrayed against the 
progress of the world on the plane of equality of opportunity. 

On May 12, 1917, M. Viviani, Marechal Joffre and other 
members of the French Mission to the United States were the 
guests of the Commonwealth and of the City, and representa- 
tives of this Commandery were invited and were present at 
the State House to join in the welcome to the distinguished 
visitors. 

The next event of the year calling for active participation 
was in August, 1917, at the Grand Army Encampment held 
in Boston on the 19th to 25th of that month. Notices in 
advance were sent to all Commanderies inviting members of 
our Order from other States visiting Boston on that occasion 
to make our Headquarters the meeting place for themselves 
and their ladies and to participate in a luncheon. Our 
Companions acted as hosts and our friends seemed to appreci- 



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ate what we had to show them in our Library and the other 
hospitahties extended to them. 

On November 17, 1917, occurred an event of unusual 
character at which the Commandery was represented, the 
dedication of the Monument to Colonel Henry Tillinghast 
Sisson, erected by the State of Rhode Island and the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts at Little Compton, Rhode Island, to 
commemorate the gallantry of Colonel Sisson in the relief of 
Little Washington, North Carolina, April 3, 1863, about one 
hundred and fifty miles by water and thirty or forty by land 
from Newbern, when it was surrounded by a vastly superior 
force of Confederates and had been besieged for some sixteen 
days. Within the besieged town were 1139 men, among them 
eight companies of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts and eight 
companies of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiments, 
and also the Commanding General, Foster, and his Staff. 
Colonel Sisson had but three hundred men of the Fifth Rhode 
Island Regiment with him when they volunteered to run the 
blockade and carry supplies and guns and open communica- 
tion. United States Senator LeRaron R. Colt presided. 
Hon. Roswell R. Rurchard, of Little Compton, presented the 
statue. Our past Commander, Hon. William W. Douglas, 
Captain of the Fifth Rhode Island, made the address for 
that regiment ; Captain Charles Storrow for the Forty-fourth 
Regiment; General Henry C. Dwight, Captain of the Twenty- 
seventh Massachusetts, for that regiment ; and addresses were 
made by the Lieutenant-Governors of Rhode Island and 
Massachusetts. Companions Captain Charles Storrow and 
Captain Charles Hunt of our Commandery were among those 
who had been in the siege, and Frank G. Webster, of Kidder, 
Peabody & Company, among our well-known citizens. 

In January, 1918, there appeared in the Atlantic Monthly a 
story entitled "A Parable for Fathers," by Miss Julia Francis 
Wood of Kansas City. Ry the kind permission of Miss Wood 
and of the Atlantic Monthly this Commandery was allowed to 
reproduce it. Portions of Miss Wood's letters to your Com- 



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mander were also permitted to be published. Two thousand 
copies of the story and the extracts from letters have gone forth 
from this Commandery to sow the seeds of patriotic devo- 
tion and selflessness so vividly portrayed by Miss Wood. 
Tearful tributes have been paid to her from many a veteran, 
who, if asked, would have said "I knew a man like Captain 
Henderson." It is still carrying its message to many hearts and 
homes. 

The death of Colonel Rand on December 23, 1917, was not 
only a great personal grief to all of us who were his Com- 
panions, but to Companions generally of the Order, for many 
knew him and have in writing attested to us how broad was 
his influence, how rare his individuality and how truly a gap 
has been left in our Order. The Recorder-in-Chief and 
Colonel Rand had served many years in close friendship and 
affiliation in their respective offices and it is no surprise that 
to him it was like the loss of a brother in arms. 

In the death of Thomas L. Livermore, on January 29, 1918, 
the Commandery received another shock difficult to bear. 
Your Commander saw and talked with Colonel Livermore on 
the day of Colonel Rand's funeral and could not help thinking 
how well he looked, how soldierly in person, how fine in every 
word spoken. Ry a curious coincidence, Colonel Livermore 
had been appointed to deliver at the January meeting of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society an appreciation of his long- 
time associate and friend. Colonel Rand, but was prevented 
from doing so by his own last illness. Our Past Commander, 
Major Henry L. Higginson, wrote and delivered the tribute to 
Companion Rand; and later, at our meeting on February 6, 
the "In Memoriam" to Colonel Livermore, which has been 
distributed among you. 

On the same day with the death of Colonel Livermore 
occurred at Concord, N. H., the death of our Senior Vice 
Commander, Rrevet Lieutenant-Colonel Solon Augustus 
Carter, a gentleman of high distinction as soldier and citizen, 
serving his State as Treasurer for some forty years. He was a 



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devoted friend and beloved Companion of our Commandery. 
His death was another unexpected bereavement, for he was 
looking forward to the meeting of February 6 to carry out a 
new form of installation of our younger members. The 
news of his death came to your Commander by telephone. 
A letter from him to the Commander, dated January 26, 
probably the last he ever signed, followed this announcement. 
That he was loved and that he is missed must be his brief 
obituary here. You have already received the "In Me- 
moriam" read on the 6th of February and subsequently printed 
and mailed to his Companions. But as we think of the 
lives and the deeds of these three men. Rand, Livermore 
and Carter, so close to each other in life and in death, we can- 
not but feel grateful beyond words that we have known and 
loved them and men like them. They were of those 
who subordinate self to high endeavor, putting their hearts 
into their work and asking nothing but to serve where service 
is asked or needed. Everything else seems insignificant and 
commonplace in the presence of such quahties. 

OUR DEAD. 

It would far outrun the limits allotted to these Annals to 
attempt an exhaustive necrology of the distinguished Com- 
panions of our Commandery who have preceded us into the 
beyond. To speak of any may seem invidious. To omit all 
reference to them would be a failure to write our Annals true. 
The Records of our Commandery are full of contemporaneous 
tributes to brothers in arms written by those nearest to them 
in service and in affection. These will endure. For some 
years these memorials were printed and distributed among 
our Companions, or read at the meetings of the Commandery, 
but the lengthening roll of our dead compelled the discontinu- 
ance of both of these practices. By the bronze memorial 
tablets and the engraved memorial tributes, as is herein before 
indicated, the names and worth of our deceased Companions 
are perpetuated; in our published Register their rank and 
service are preserved; in our Albums their forms and faces 



64 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

live again for ourselves and our successors. Some few of our 
number have been the recipients of public memorials by 
State or City; some other few by unusual service, in kind or 
quality, have attracted widespread attention; and others still, 
too old for service in the field, have been marked men in the 
community for their burning patriotism, their utter self- 
forgetfulness, their whole-souled devotion to the needs of the 
hoiir in the years of the Civil War. The country was not 
saved by the Army and Navy alone. 

We have selected some names for record here. Not to 
measure their service, not to emphasize their deserts, not to 
exalt some above others, not to excite envy, far from it; but 
only to illustrate by example, culled from many sources, how 
varied were the fields for service in those far-off war days ; how 
those services were perpetuated and acknowledged; how 
simplicity went hand in hand with greatness of soul and 
achievement; and by the testimony of others impress upon 
those who may read these Annals the conviction that our 
great Order was and of right ought to be held in high honor 
for what it had helped do, under the guidance of our great 
Chieftain, to secure freedom of body, mind and soul to the 
people of these United States. 

OUR FUNERAL SERVICE. 

Refore venturing upon the selection of honored names 
from our Roster of Companions it may be appropriate to 
speak of a significant and beautiful service to the dead, 
originating in our Commandery and now recognized as a 
part of our tribute to every Companion of our Commandery 
who has been one with us. "The Loyal Legion Funeral 
Service," for so it is now known, originated with, or was 
suggested to Colonel Rand in 1888, and was first adopted at 
the funeral of Colonel William V. Hutchings, a charter 
member of our Commandery and its first Chancellor, 
serving in that office from 1868 to 1881. He died at Auburn- 
dale, Massachusetts, July 26, 1888, and was buried from 
Trinity Church, under the direction and supervision of the 



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Commandery. He was one of our best-known Companions, 
the friend of us all; of conspicuous and striking appearance, 
florid, gray haired, joyous and all pervading. On his death, 
Mr. J. H. Aubin, (who furnishes these interesting data) at 
the request of Colonel Rand, visited Fort Warren and sug- 
gested to Captain (afterwards General) Greenough of the 
Fourth Artillery that it would add to the irapressiveness of 
our funeral service if the coffin of our deceased Companion 
might be carried into and out of Trinity Church upon the 
shoulders of uniformed soldiers. The appropriateness of the 
suggestion instantly met the hearty concurrence of Captain 
Greenough, and he not only at the time of the funeral sent a 
detail of eight non-commissioned officers under a sergeant, 
all in full dress uniform, but attended himself to see that the 
duty was properly performed. That led to accessible military 
details being sought and different militia companies being 
called upon for like service. "The National Lancers" (Troop 
A, 1st Battalion Cavalry, M. V. M.) served oftener than any 
other organization. Other Commands that fusnished details 
were Battery A, 1st Battahon Light Artillery, M. V. M., and 
various infantry companies, among the latter Company L, 
6th Infantry, M. V. M., the only colored organization in the 
State Militia, which furnished the detail for the funeral of 
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. There was at least 
one Naval funeral, that of Acting Volunteer Lieutenant C. 
Webster Wilson, U. S. N., at Trinity Church, who died in 
1903, a detail of seamen from the Navy Yard serving on that 
occasion. After the first one or two of these funerals a reg- 
ular procedure was adopted — bugler, drummers, color bearers, 
the playing of "The Lost Chord" by the bugler, with organ 
accompaniment and sounding of "Taps." Possibly in no 
other way did the significance of Loyal Legion membership 
become so impressed upon the community as through these 
and the less elaborate funeral services, which yet included the 
casket flag and the sounding of "Taps." 



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MORTUARY HONORS. 

General Charles Devens was the most prominent and most 
widely known of our Companions of this Commandery. His 
statue in Boston adorns the plaza of the State House and an 
equestrian statue of him was unveiled in Worcester in front of 
the Court House there, with great ceremony, on the 4th of 
July, 1906, when Governor Guild represented the Common- 
wealth and General StewartL. Woodford of New York was the 
orator and delivered a noble address. Our Companion, General 
William F. Draper, made the speech of presentation of the 
statue to Worcester County. General Devens died January 
7, 1891, and his funeral took place in Trinity Church, Boston, 
and was in charge of the Massachusetts Commandery of the 
Loyal Legion. LTpwards of three hundred of his Companions 
were present on the occasion, besides many from other 
organizations. 

On March 19, 1891, the Commandery of the State of 
Massachusetts held a Memorial Tribute to him at Music Hall, 
Boston, at which Rev. PhilUps Brooks offered prayer as our 
Chaplain. General John M. Corse, Commander, made the 
introductory remarks; a tribute to his memory was offered 
by General Rutherford B. Hayes, Ex-President of the United 
States, and Commander-in-Chief of our Order, and the eulogy 
was pronounced by our Companion, General Francis A. Walker. 

The music by the Cadet Band and the Apollo Club was most 
impressive from the Prelude to "Taps" and the anthem "Integer 
Vitae," by Fleming, to words written by Charles James 
Sprague, was full of deep significance. 

It may be well to renew our memories by printing here the 
verses of Mr. Sprague : 

"Lord now the hero's mortal wars are ended, 
Where in the conflict 'twas Thy power defended. 
Thy shield that guarded and Thy hand rewarded 
Conqueror, his cause was Thine. 

"Man judges man. the crown or chain disposing, 
Groping in earthly shadows round him closing, 



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Lofty endeavor, truth to cull from error; 
But judgment, Lord, is Thine. 

"Oft may his Spirit, now Thy peace possessing, 
Dwell in the joy of Thy eternal blessing 
In Heaven, all glorious, crowned by Thee victorious; 
Safe in Thy love divine." 

The whole record of this Memorial Tribute has been printed 
and distributed among you. To repeat it here is impossible; 
but one reading it anew may be pardoned for quoting a few 
words of appreciation and affection that fell from the lips of 
his Companions, though those lips be themselves now sealed 
in death. 

Read these words of General John M. Corse, at that time 
our Commander: "But we who knew him more intimately 
are not so much moved by the triumphs of his public life as by 
the simplicity of his character, the gentleness of his nature, and 
the genuine goodness of his heart. He was a high type of the 
gentleman, ever manifesting a tender regard and consideration 
for the feehngs of others." 

And these words of Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes. 
After quoting from the peroration of the address of General 
Devens on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Order, to which 
reference has already been made, he tearfully breaks forth: 
"Yes, yes, brave heart! Generous spirit! You are still our admired 
American soldier and American gentleman. We greet you still 
as our beloved Companion and trusted friend. You do, indeed, 
still belong to the same Army with all who have gone before 
and all who remain! You will belong always to the one Army 
that saved the Union and Liberty: Liberty and Union." 

And our own beloved General Francis A. Walker in his 
Eulogy utters these words of his friend: "I have said that Gen- 
eral Devens was, to himself, first and foremost a soldier, and 
that it was as such he would, for himself, have chosen to be 
portrayed. ... It was not because he had been a soldier, 
merely, but because he had been a soldier of the Union, that 
Charles Devens held these four years of mihtary service to be, 



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beyond all others, the chief thing in his long and distinguished 
career. It was the noble cause, it was the glorious outcome, 
which made the war, for him, the better part of his life. 

"Many a frontiersman, although unaccustomed to luxury 
and well inured to hardship, was more dainty and self-regard- 
ful than Charles Devens in the field. . . . Even when a 
general officer, he sometimes lay in the very trenches with the 
troops. His disposition to share the lot of his men carried 
him too far, even for the good of the service; and the hard- 
ships which he might well have spared himself ultimately 
brought on the frightful pains of inflammatory rheumatism 
which at times disabled him. 

"Not only could the privations and sufferings of the cam- 
paigns hke those of the Army of the Potomac not shake his 
fortitude : they could not even disturb that delicious urbanity, 
without a trace of pomposity, yet with just a spice of man- 
nerism in it, which no friend of his can ever think of without 
a loving smile and tear. Who of us ever saw a more perfect 
gentleman in all that constitutes the grace of life? Only 
those who knew him in the field can believe that none of this 
'rubbed off' in the rough encounters and amid the grimy 
conditions of campaign. It is as the Orator of the War that 
Charles Devens is best remembered by all, except the com- 
paratively few who were privileged to serve with him in the 
field ; and it is as such he will take his permanent place in the 
sight of our posterity. Excepting the brief but infinitely 
moving speech of Lincoln at Gettysburg and the graceful 
oration of Everett, no address which has been delivered upon 
the themes of the great struggle can compare with General 
Devens's response for the returning soldiers at Harvard Com- 
memoration in 1865 ; his Eulogy upon Meade at New Haven, 
in 1873 ; his inspired tributes to Grant in Boston and at Worces- 
ter in 1885; and his last public address, the oration before the 
Loyal Legion in Philadelphia, April 15, 1890, on the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of the founding of the Order." 

General Walker closes his Eulogy with a quotation from the 
oration of General Devens at Worcester, wherein he con- 



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trasts the dying Napoleon and the dying Grant, and of the 
latter the imagined thoughts passing through his mind : 

"Shall I see them again, McPherson, Reynolds and Sedg- 
wick, as they died at the head of their Army Corps; Rawlins, 
whom I loved as a brother; Hooker, as when his cannon rang 
down from among the clouds on Lookout's crest; Thomas, 
as he triumphed at Nashville; Meade, as he dashed back the 
fierce charge at Gettysburg, or urged to the last dread struggle 
the ever faithful Army of the Potomac? If it be so, I know 
they will meet me as Comrades and brothers. Not those 
alone; not alone the great chiefs who urged forward the fiery 
onset of mighty battalions. Shall I see again the splendid 
youth of 1861, as they came in all the ardor of their generous 
patriotism, in all the fire of their splendid courage, to fill the 
ranks of our armies? Shall I see them as when through the 
valleys the battle poured its awful tide, or as when the hills 
were red by their glorious sacrifice? I am very near them 
now. Almost I can behold them, although the light in their 
faces is that which never was on land or sea. Almost I can 
hear their bugles call to me, as the notes softly rise and fall 
across the dark valley through which I must pass. I go to 
them, and I know there is not one that will not meet me as a 
father and a friend." 

JOHN MURRAY CORSE. 

Rrevet Major-General John Murray Corse, U. S. V., was our 
Commander in 1890. He died at Winchester, Mass., April 
23, 1893. 

At our meeting of May 4, our Companion, Rrevet- Colonel 
Henry Stone, himself a rare man and one to whom this Com- 
mandery owes a debt of gratitude for his unfailing service and 
devotion to it, paid a tribute to the memory of Companion 
Corse, so beautiful, so just and so far reaching in its apprecia- 
tion of his services, that it should be rescued from its retire- 
ment of twenty-five years and be reproduced to recall the 
worth of our two Companions, both of whom have passed on 
to their reward. Colonel Stone said: 



70 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

COMMANDER AND COMPANIONS : It has been the singular 
good fortune of this Commandery that during the twenty-five years of 
its existence it has lost, by death, but two of the honored soldiers who 
have served as its Commander, and, in each case, without the long and 
weary delay of lingering illness, or previous loss of mental or physical 
vigor; — that 

"With no throb of fiery pain. 
No cold gradations of decay, 
Death broke at once the vital chain 
And freed his soul the nearest way." 

There is no need to dwell upon the varied and brilliant military 
career of General Corse. The whole world knows its most striking event ; 
but his whole service was crowded with acts of enterprise and valor. 
At the outset, he had the advantage of two years' training at the Military 
Academy, where his course was cut short by an infraction of discipUne 
in no way derogatory to his character, his scholarship or his general good 
conduct, and, perhaps, complimentary to his manliness. Entering the 
service of liis country in July, 1861, as Major of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, 
he steadily rose, through every grade, by liis own proved merit, till he 
became Major-General by brevet " for long and continuous service and 
for special gallantry at Allatoona," and the Commander of the largest 
division in the ever-victorious Army of the Tennessee. During his nearly 
five years of incessant activity, he performed every kind of duty which 
can fall to the lot of an energetic and willing soldier. He commanded, 
with equal success, a regiment, a brigade, a division. His work on the 
staff was also brilliant and useful. In action he showed always courage, 
vigor, readiness and ample resources of skill. 

Early in his military hfe he served, as Inspector-General, on the 
staff of General John Pope, during the brilliantly successful operations at 
Island Number Ten. He never ceased to speak with high respect of 
that General, even after the good reputation so deservedly won in the 
West was snatched away in the East. Major Corse, early in 1862, was 
promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and soon after Colonel, and assigned to 
Sherman's division, where he naturally attracted the attention and regard 
of that obser^ ant and restless genius. He took no part, however, in the 
unsuccessful movement against Vicksburg in the closing days of 1862, nor 
did he join in the operations which led to the capture of that stronghold, 
until three weeks before its surrender. He led the way to Jackson im- 
mediately after, and was made Brigadier-General August 11, 1863, and 
placed in command of the brigade in which, not long before, he had served 
as Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a regiment. 

Henceforth the Official Records, and especially Sherman's reports, 
are full of mention of his gallantry, energy and activity. At the 
assault on Missionary Ridge, in November, 1863, his brigade was 



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the only one in Sherman's command offensively engaged, and he was 
severely wounded. 

Early in April, 1861, he was sent by General Sherman on a special 
mission of great importance down the Mississippi and up the Red River. 

He was then but twenty-eight years old; yet Sherman, in his letter 
of instruction, says to this young man: "I hereby clothe you with power 
to use my name to carry out certain plans." Such marks of absolute 
confidence seldom are bestowed on one so young, and they were amply 
justified. They show, also, the high regard in which he was held by 
his General — a regard he never forfeited and which was maintained 
through life. 

During the Atlanta Campaign, from May to October, he served on 
Sherman's staff. At its close, he preferred a division to further staff duty. 
As division commander, he was among the foremost in the romantic 
march through Georgia and the Carolinas. 

In the famous defence of Allatoona Pass, which has made him im- 
mortal in song and story, it was not so much his steadfastness which 
reveals his military distinction — a thousand others had shown equal 
steadiness and courage — but what marks him the great soldier is the 
fact that when, at Rome, forty miles away, he learned by Sherman's letter 
of Hood's threatening advance, he divined the hostile plans, and instantly 
realized the necessity of saving the Pass, where were stored the supplies 
for 100,000 men. The far-off signals on Kenesaw were dimly seen and 
obscurely read through the Autumn haze: but the hint was enough. All 
the afternoon, and far into the night, he worked — overcoming obstacles 
which would have daunted a less resolute and resourceful man — liindered 
by a railroad accident wliich threatened fatal delay — till a little before 
day-dawn he reached the works just in time to ward off the desperate 
assault which else might have doomed the National Army to retreat or 
starvation. It was a gallant defence, and worthy of all praise. But song 
and story have celebrated the spectacular, rather than the real merit of 
his deed. One almost shudders now to think what might have been if a 
weaker man had been in his place. For this great service he was justly 
made Major-General by Brevet, to date from October 5, 1864, one of the 
few instances during our Civil War when the date of the commission 
coincides with that of the action. 

\\ hen the war ended, like so many of liis fellow soldiers, he entered 
at once on enterprises for the development of the great West. He was 
for years largely interested in building railroads. Making his residence 
in Chicago, when the great fire came which desolated that city all his 
military papers and relics were utterly destroyed ■ — an irreparable loss. 
His later career, as citizen in our own community, needs no mention. 
Here he was known of all men. His service as Postmaster was liighly 
creditable to liimself and useful to the city. He became a Companion 



72 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

of our order in November, 1877. and of this Comraandery, by transfer, in 
1886. He was elected Commander in May, 1890 — the year distinguished 
by the National Encampment of the Grand Army in our city. 

The celebrity which his war record gave him never led our friend 
into any self-elation. He was always modest and shy in regard to his 
military career. Those who have had the good fortune to hear his ac- 
count of the battle of Allatoona could not but notice how he kept him- 
self in the background. A stranger seeing him on the street would never 
select this quiet, unassuming, modest gentleman as one of our famous 
heroes. 

With profound grief at the loss of such a friend, this Commandery 
with the earnest and tender memories of every member conveys to the 
family of om* deceased Commander and Companion this expression of 
deep and heartfelt sympathy in the sudden and unspeakable sorrow that 
has befallen them, and assiu-ance that his name will be ever cherished 
as one of the bravest of the men who grandly helped preserve our freedom 
and nationality. 

NATHANIEL PRENTICE BANKS. 

Nathaniel Prentice Banks died September 1, 1894, at the 
age of seventy-eight years. A man with a history. Born in 
Waltham, receiving a country school education till he began 
work in a mill at twelve years of age, he served seven terms 
in the House of Representatives in Congress, two as Speaker, 
four as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations; 
six terms as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; 
four years as Major-General; besides being prominently 
mentioned for President in 1864, and today his statue in 
bronze in the Square of the State House in Boston and opposite 
that of General Charles Devens attests the gratitude and 
appreciation of his character and his work as a citizen in peace 
and in war. That he made the best of his opportunities is 
high praise for any man; that he had recognition in his own 
day and generation is cause for congratulation; that he filled 
so many and such varied offices of honor and trust and filled 
them so well would alone entitle him to an elevation beyond 
his fellows in our Annals. 

Our Companion, General George B. Drake, at a meeting 
of our Commandery on November 7, 1894, paid a most 
affectionate and glowing tribute to General Banks, among 



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other things quoting the tribute to his fairness when Speaker 
of the House, uttered by a Southern member of Congress 
in those days of 1855 when the House of Representatives was 
as inflammable as gunpowder, "that Banks stood so straight 
as to almost lean to the other side." General Drake sets 
forth in the memorial of his friend many circumstances of 
great interest relating to the military, political and personal 
history of. General Banks, and we may accept as his highest 
and most lasting title to gratitude and praise these telling 
words which close the printed tribute to his memory: "Of 
undaunted personal bravery, unselfish to a fault, so much so 
that, after a public life of many years wherein he might have 
enriched himself without dishonor, old age overtook him with 
comparatively little provision. His services brought him 
nothing but a pension of poverty; but, although the difficulties 
that beset his declining years might under different circum- 
stances have been lessened, yet he possessed and bequeathed 
what was infinitely better than riches: a name that will 
increase in honor as long as the country endures, unsullied by 
any evidence that his acts were ever prompted by a sordid 
motive. It is with poignant grief that the realization comes 
home to us that his peculiarly impressive utterances will be 
heard no more and that his stately figure and distinguished 
personality haye passed away forever." 

EDWARD WARD HINCKS. 

Brevet Major-General Edward Ward Hincks came to our 
Commandery by transfer from New York, May 6, 1885; 
was our Commander in 1889 and died, full of years and honors, 
at Cambridge, Mass., February 14, 1894. 

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Solon A. Carter, on March 7, 
1891, paid tribute to his memory, from which we quote the 
following eloquent and loving words: 

Once again the draped banner of oiu- Commandery, the mournful 
strains of Pleyel's Hymn, the notes of the muffled drum, and the famihar 
call of "Taps" — the soldier's good-night — have reminded us that another 



74 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

name must be added to the rapidly lengthening list of our country's de- 
parted heroes. 

The death at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 14th of 
February, 1894, of Edward Ward Hincks — Brigadier-General, Brevet 
Major General, U. S. V., Colonel (retired), Brevet Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A. — removes from our midst one whose companionship was dearly 
prized by all Ms associates. The warm pressure of his hand, the kindly 
greeting of his lips, and the loving light of his eyes, now closed from our 
human sight, were as a benediction to all upon whom they were bestowed, 
and an inspiration to emulate those sterling qualities which so endeared 
him to all with whom he came in contact. 

It is fitting that at the close of a life so crowded with achievement 
and patriotic service liis Companions of tliis Commandery should place 
upon record their appreciation of his eminent services to his State and 
country; their expressions of gratitude that they were permitted for so 
long a time to enjoy his companionsliip, and their sorrow in the hour 
of parting. General Hincks was a noble type of the American volunteer 
soldier, and a splendid representative of that army which formed the 
bulwark against which the waves of secession and treason beat for 
four weary years without avail. The record of his achievements has 
become a part of the history of that great struggle, and his deeds 
might well furnish the theme for the artist's pencil, the poet's muse, and 
the historian's pen. 

The time and place and the proprieties of this occasion forbid more 
than the briefest allusion to the conspicuous service he rendered in the 
various positions he was called upon to fill, his record in any one of which 
would furnish ample material for an extended eulogy. 

The echoes of the first hostile gun fired upon Sumter had hardly died 
away when he hastened to offer his services in any capacity they might be 
required. His activity in organizing and forwarding the 8th Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, to the front, accompanying it as Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel ; his successful efforts in saving to the Union cause the frigate 
Constitution ("Old Ironsides") in the harbor of Annapolis, and in opening 
the railway from Annapolis to Washington, repairing the damage done to 
track and equipment, thus restoring communication with the Nation's 
Capital, are familiar to all. 

The rebelUon was not crushed within the predicted ninety days' limit, 
and upon the expiration of the term of service of the 8th Regiment he was 
commissioned as Colonel of the 19th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
sharing with it its varying fortunes until stricken down upon the bloody 
field of Antietam. His surviving conu-ades of the latter organization will 
bear wiUing testimony to his gallantry and devotion, and recall with pride 
and satisfaction the brilliant record made under their old commander. 
How loyal he was to them and with what ardor he championed their cause 



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whenever opportunity offered, many of the members of his regiment can 
attest. 

He was severely, and at the time thought and reported to be mortally 
wounded at Antietam, and never fully recovered from injuries received in 
that engagement. Until the day of his death he was a constant sufferer, 
the pain being at times intense, but he bore it with patience and fortitude. 

To a friend who called upon him a few days before his death he said: 
'"I dread the long and weary nights, I suffer such excruciating pain in 
my dreams. I do not know whether I actually suffer, but the effect is 
the same as if it was reahty." 

Who shall say that our victories were not purchased at a fearful cost.^ 
Partially recovering his health and strength, and having been pro- 
moted to Brigadier-General United States Volunteers, he was, in the 
summer of 1863, assigned to the command of the Draft Rendezvous at 
Concord, N. H. 

He assumed the duties of the position under the most embarrassing 
circumstances: a Brigadier-General without a staff and without troops. 
But General Hincks was a host in himself, and in a short time by his tact 
and firmness the turbident elements by wliich he was surrounded were 
subdued, and the work of his department went forward without friction. 
Any sketch of General Hincks' extended and honorable service would not 
be complete without reference to this period of his career. Probably no 
general officer in the service was brought into such intimate, personal and 
official relations with the majority of the officers of New Hampshire organ- 
izations, and certainly none commanded their respect and affectionate 
regard in a higher degree than did he. 

These sentiments were shared by the citizens of the State generally, 
and today those who knew him and followed his course during that critical 
period feel a deep sense of personal loss in his death. 

The drudgery and routine of the position of Commandant of the Draft 
Rendezvous, to the duties of which had been added those of Superintendent 
of the Volunteer Recruiting Service, Chief Mustering and Disbursing 
Officer, and Provost Marshal General, had become exceedingly irksome and 
fatiguing, and early in the Spring of 1861 he requested to be assigned to 
active field service. 

He was for a brief season in command of the camp for rebel prisoners 
at Point Lookout, Maryland, from which post he was in April, 186 1, trans- 
ferred, by order of General Butler, commanding the Department, to Camp 
Hamilton, near Fortress Monroe, where he was charged with the duty of 
organizing a Division of Colored Troops, subsequently known as the 3d 
Division, 18th Army Corps. 

General Hincks, in command of the division, ascended the James on 
the 5th of May, 1864 (the command being a part of the Army of the 
James), landing a detachment at \A ilson's Wharf and Fort Powhatan, and 



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established division headquarters at City Point, and bore an active and 
honorable part in the assault on the enemy's lines before Petersburg, on 
the 15th of June. 

He found himself unable, by reason of his wounds, to endure the 
exposure incident to active duty in the field, and early in July was com- 
pelled to relinquish his command, greatly to his own disappointment 
and to the regret of his superior and subordinate officers. 

To the discharge of his duties in all these positions, as well as those 
filled subsequently in the service of the Government and in civil life, he 
brought enthusiasm and zeal, and displayed in a marked degree the qualities 
of unswerving loyalty, intense patriotism, courage and bravery, and great 
executive ability. 

He was a forceful and fluent public speaker, and in a cause which 
enlisted his sympathies truly eloquent. 

His magnanimity to the conquered was only exceeded by his zeal in 
his efforts to conquer. 

Brave soldier, honored Commander, beloved Companion and friend, 
farewell ! Green be the turf above thee. Ours shall be the cherished 
privilege of keeping green in our hearts the recollection of thy virtues and 
worth, so long as Memory shall hold her sway. 

Since the organization of this Commandery we have been called to 
mourn the death of three illustrious Companions borne upon the register in 
the list of Commanders. The courteous and dignified Devens, the gallant 
and fearless Corse, and the brave and lamented Hincks. 

Surely, Companions, it has been no ordinary privilege that has per- 
mitted us to enjoy their friendship and to honor them, while we have 
honored ourselves, by elevating them to the highest position in the gift of 
the Commandery. 

CHARLES P. CLARK. 

The memory of Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, U. S. N., 
Charles P. Clark, our Commander in 1896, who died in Nice, 
France, March 21, 1901, had significant honors when his 
friend, our Chaplain, Edward Everett Hale, paid high tribute 
to him; and Admiral Sampson sent Seaman Carroll of the 
"Wabash" to represent the Navy. Carroll bore the Union 
Jack and occupied the central position at the chancel, directly 
in front of the casket. The members of the Loyal Legion 
acted as ushers and two hundred and eighty officers and em- 
ployes of the New Haven Road came in a body to do honor to 
his memory. Dr. Hale in his sermon referred to the deceased 
and to his work as a Railroad President as follows : 



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"The Great Railway system of America, in which so many 
of you are engaged, is simply the answer to the daily prayer 
of the world for its daily bread. One hundred years ago 
wheat flour was a luxury on the tables of the rich in Eastern 
Massachusetts. It cost three times as much as it costs now, 
while the average wages of workingmen were perhaps one- 
third of what they are now. This means that in that matter 
the food of a family costs now one-ninth of what it cost then. 
Now^ this miracle which feeds a multitude is due to the honor, 
the integrity, the courage, the foresight of the men who have 
been willing to work for mankind, and they are to be held up 
in the history of the century just closed as the men who worked 
with God every day in the answer to the daily prayer for 
daily bread." 

As the procession started from the church there was heard 
again the sound of trumpets and the rolling of drums in a 
funeral march to emphasize the solemnity of the scene. 

FRANCIS A. WALKER— BENJAMIN S. CALEF— 
CASPAR CROWNINSHIELD. 

General Francis A. Walker died on the fifth of January, 
1897. His close friend. Major Benjamin S. Calef, was in 
charge of the funeral arrangements of General Walker, at 
Trinity Church, on the eighth day of January, when the 
Companions of the Loyal Legion and hosts of other citizens 
did honor to his memory. 

On the morning of January 9, Major Calef died. The 
death of General Walker had been a terrible grief to him, and 
probably hastened his own death, for he had been in failing 
health for some time. The Boston Globe, writing of the 
funeral of Major Calef, at Trinity Church, comments on the 
funerals of the two men, so soon joined in death: "Down the 
long aisle of Trinity last Friday the soldierly Major Benjamin 
S. Calef, erect and handsome, followed the remains of General 
Walker. Down the long aisle of Trinity today, high on the 
shoulders of the men of the State Militia, as being one who had 



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fought the good fight, was borne the body of Major Benjamin 
S. Calef. Who can say what a day may bring forth?" 

In the beautiful tribute to Major Calef presented to the Com- 
mandery by Major William P. Shreve at its meeting on 
February 3, 1897, the following words sum up the memory of 
Major Calef we still hold in our hearts: "Faithful in all 
service — loyal in all thought and action — helpful amid all the 
discouragements of daily life — respected by the community — 
honored by his associates — loved by his friends — we bring our 
tribute to his memory, grateful for the companionship that 
has made our lives brighter, happier and better." 

On January 10, 1897, our honored Companion, Brevet 
Brigadier-General Caspar Crowninshield, first a Captain in 
the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry and later accounted 
one of the best cavalry officers in General Sheridan's com- 
mand, died at his home in Boston. He was the officer who, 
when General Charles Russell Lowell, in command of the 
"Reserve Brigade," fell dead at the battle of Cedar Mountain, 
led the third and successful charge of that brigade. The 
tributes to his memory by Companions Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel J. Lewis Stackpole, Major and Judge Advocate, and 
Chaplain Charles A. Humphreys of the Second Massachusetts 
Cavalry, offered on this same third day of February, are 
thrilling as mere history. And one more tribute that same 
evening must be recalled, that to General Francis A. Walker 
by Colonel Thomas L. Livermore. 

How young they died! General Walker at fifty-six. Brig- 
adier-General Caspar Crowninshield at sixty. Major Calef at 
sixty-two. 

In the printed volume of our Records where are gathered 
these memorials of our dead one reads of heroisms and sacri- 
fices and of service as lofty as any tales of romance however 
imaginative in the telling. 

Francis A . Walker was a student of law in the office of Charles 
Devens, Jr., at Worcester, and enlisted under him as a private 
in the Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers. By October, 
1862, we find him Major and Assistant Adjutant-General on 



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the staff of General Couch of the Second Army Corps, and he 
remained with that Corps till his resignation from the army 
in January, 1865. In civil life, devoting himself to the 
advancement of science and the work of education and in 
1881 becoming President of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, the enthusiasm he imparted to his students 
was a phenomenon in the history of education. 

It may not be out of place to record an impressive incident 
that occurred, several years before General Walker's death, 
at a dinner at which the writer of these Annals was present. 
Colonel Charles Marshall of Virginia, the Military Secretary 
of General Robert E. Lee, was present as a guest. General 
Walker was placed by the side of Colonel Marshall and they 
soon were deep in conversation. General Walker having 
been called upon, before alluding to the special subject on 
which he was expected to speak, paid a most soldierly tribute 
to the memory of General Robert E. Lee and expressed 
his pleasure on meeting Colonel Marshall in the freedom 
and intimacy of social life and at that table. 

Colonel Marshall had been assured by the presiding officsr 
that he would not be called upon to speak, but on the con- 
clusion of General Walker's address he rose, and with the 
opening words: "I feel as if I were in Virginia," asked to b 3 
permitted to say a few words. He then spoke of General Lee, 
gave many anecdotes of him as he was, as soldier and man, 
and in conclusion turning to the guests assembled said, in 
effect, that he had several sons and that he had had them all 
educated with a view^ of having their final instruction undsr 
General Francis A. Walker, at the Institute of Technology in 
Boston, that they might have the benefit of the teaching and 
the character of such a man. Some are still living who heard 
that address, that spontaneous utterance, the most beautiful 
tribute perhaps that one man could pay to another. The 
death of General Walker and other circumstances combined 
to prevent the fulfillment of this intention A great gap 
was left in our ranks by the death of these three Com- 
panions, Walker, Calef and Crowinshield. 



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On the fourteenth of October, 1897, the Faculty of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the friends of 
General Francis A. Walker to memorial exercises to be held in 
Music Hall on that day. Governor Wolcott on that occasion 
spoke for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Senator 
George F. Hoar delivered the oration on the departed soldier 
and scholar. All that took place on that occasion has been 
made the subject of public record and the mere reference to 
the fact must carry with it, by implication, the nature and 
dignity of the memorial tribute to this most gracious per- 
sonality, our beloved Commander of 1883 and 1884, the 
historian of the Second Army Corps, the inspiring President 
of the great Institution which he directed for so many years. 

SIMON G. GRIFFIN. 

Brevet Major-General Simon G. Griffin was born in Nelson, 
New Hampshire, August 9, 1824, and died at Keene, New 
Hampshire, January 14, 1902, and was buried there with full 
military honors. The ceremonies were in charge of the Loyal 
Legion, represented by Colonel Rand, Captain Hunt, Captain 
Shute, Major Charles B. Amory and others of Boston. 
General Griffin was Commander of our Commandery in 1887 
and 1888. It is not easy to review and to express with sober 
phrase the hfe of General Griffin. His fighting heart and 
patriotic devotion came naturally by direct inheritance from 
his two grandfathers, both soldiers of the Revolution, who had 
fought at Bunker Hill. The sturdy New Englanders from 
whom he sprang gave him earnestness, integrity, confidence 
and the ambition to achieve honorable success. The Civil 
War found him admitted to the bar and entered upon the 
practice of his profession at Concord, New Hampshire. At 
the first call of President Lincoln, he enlisted as a private— 
at the age of thirty-seven years; was elected Captain of his 
Company, which joined the 2d New Hampshire Regiment, and 
went at once to the front to take part in the first battle of 
Bull Run. He shortly after became Colonel of the Sixth New 
Hampshire Volunteers. He believed in discipline; he estab- 



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lished schools for his commissioned and non-commissioned 
officers and instilled into officers and men alike his own 
enthusiasm and pride in their profession. The proof of their 
work appeared in the record of his regiment on many a bloody 
battlefield. The story of his deserved promotions as an officer 
and his record as a man attest his sterling character. General 
Griffin took part in twenty-two battles and in many smaller 
engagements. Two horses were killed and five wounded 
under him. Wherever his men were ordered to go under fire, 
he went; yet he never received a wound, and he was never 
absent from his command by reason of illness. 

From the first Bull Run to Appomattox he participated in 
severe fighting. He was the only volunteer officer from New 
Hampshire who rose to be full Brigadier and Brevet Major- 
General during the War for the Union. He was a man of 
scholarly tastes and broad learning. While not a graduate of 
any academic school, he received an honorary degree from 
Dartmouth College and at the time of his death had substan- 
tially completed a history of Keene. He represented the 
City of Keene in the State Legislature, serving two terms as 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Brevet Brigadier-General Thomas Sherwin in summing up 
the character of his friend, our Companion and Commander, 
General Griffin, pays this tribute to his memory: 

"Prominent among the qualities which marked the character of 
General Griflin were firnmess, courage of conviction, uncompromising 
integrity of act and thought, and not less conspicuous of that character 
were the gentleness, genuine kindness, and unfaiUng courtesy which 
marked liis relations with those about him." 

For our younger Companions, especially, the life of this 
man is an example and an inspiration. To say that every 
battlefield knew him is hardly an exaggeration; for from Bull 
Run to Roanoke Island, and afterwards with the Army of the 
Potomac, later to Vicksburg, and still again and latest through 
the campaigns of Virginia with the Ninth Army Corps, he was 
always at the danger point. For gallantry at Spotsylvania 
Courthouse he was made Brigadier-General and for his services 



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at Petersburg, Brevet Major-GeneraL In civil life a devoted 
citizen, serving ever, whenever wanted. In his family life, 
loving, pure and unsullied. And withal, and everywhere, a 
modest, God-fearing gentleman. 

General Griffin realized in his person and life the words of 
Lowell, "Manhood's simple level." 

GENERAL AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. 

"With military and civil honors the mortal remains of the 
brave soldier and honored citizen. General Augustus P. 
Martin, were laid at rest at Mount Auburn yesterday after- 
noon. The Comrades whom he loved in life and who were his 
steadfast friends committed his dust to earth and closed his 
grave, by them to be kept green as the veterans' Memorial 
days succeed each other as long as any old soldier remains to 
lay the laurel wreath upon its mound." 

Such are the recorded w ords in the published account of the 
day. General Martin was our Commander in 1879 and 1880 
and died at Dorchester, Mass., March 13, 1902. The services 
preceding the burial were held at the Second Unitarian Church, 
Copley Square, Boston, and a vast concourse of people, and 
among them men of prominence in every walk of life, were 
assembled there to do honor to a former Mayor of Boston and 
also to a soldier of tried ability, who had served his country 
bravely and well. Rev. Dr. Horton in his tribute to General 
Martin said, with truthful emphasis: 

"General Martin contributed to the betterment of the 
community. He was no echo. He was no imitator. In the 
mould of his own thinking he cast his verdict and shaped his 
judgment. He would wish one to say and to say it modestly, 
that he tried to be a patriot. He was a generous friend, 
staunch, true, unflinching in his constancy. The loyal soul 
is loyal everywhere, to family, friends or organizations. He 
cultivated frankness and that frankness impressed itself on all. 
For twenty-three years the broad light has radiantly shone on 
our friendship. He gave me much more than I could give to 
him. Some time the orator will sum up the traits of General 



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Martin and in eloquent periods present his character. Today 
this is friendship's offering. This is the community's recogni- 
tion." 

ALFRED P. ROCKWELL. 

General Alfred P. Rockwell died suddenly at New Haven, 
Conn., December 24, 190.3. He was the fust Chairman of the 
Board of Fire Commissioners of Boston. He had been an 
instructor at Yale and later became Professor of Mining in the 
Institute of Technology in Boston. The published tribute of 
Colonel Thomas L. Livermore appearing in the Transcript 
bears witness to the fact of the high service in the Civil War of 
General Rockwell and of his devotion to our Order. He was 
a member of the Council in 1870-1871, Senior Vice Com- 
mander in 1877 and our Commander in 1878. 

EDMUND RICE. 

General Edmund Rice died suddenly July 20, 1906, and all 
the honors of the Commonwealth were paid to him. The 
newspapers of the day with illustrations and in full columns 
show the "Hall of the Flags" under the Gilded Dome, where his 
body lay in State, and tell of the crowds who did honor to his 
memory. 

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. 

Thomas Wentworth Higginson died of old age at his home 
in Cambridge on May 9, 1910. He was born December 22, 
1823. He was an "Anti-slavery Fighter" of the most pro- 
nounced type and was known besides as author, essayist, 
speaker and reformer at home and abroad. In September, 
1862, he became Captain in the Fifty-first Massachusetts 
Regiment and in November following was made Colonel of 
the First South Carolina Volunteers, subsequently named the 
Thirty-third Regiment of Colored Troops, which was the first 
regiment of freed slaves mustered into the United States 
service. In one of his reminiscent moods he says: "The 
nearest I ever came to writing an epitaph of myself was in a 



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pair of verses which were, I might almost say, composed dur- 
ing sleep one Summer morning. The epitaph was: 

"THE TRUMPETER." 

"I blew, I blew, the trumpet loudly sounding; 
I blew, I blew, the heart within me bounding; 
The world was fresh and fair, yet dark with wrong. 
And men stood forth to conquer at the Song 
I blew, I blew, I blew. 

"The field is won; the minstrels loud are crying 
And all the world is peace and I am dying; 
Yet this forgotten life was not in vain. 
Enough if I alone recall the strain 
I blew, I blew, I blew." 

And so we leave our Companion quoting one verse from the 
favorite poem of his own composition, written in 1888 for the 
Grand Army Post in Cambridge: 

"WAITING FOR THE BUGLE." 

"Though the bivouac of age may put ice in our veins. 
And no fibre of steel in our sinew remains; 
Though the comrades of yesterday's march are not here. 
And the sunlight seems pale and the branches are sere, 
Though the sound of our cheering dies down to a moan, 
We shall find our Lost Youth when the bugle is blown." 

AUGUSTUS B. R. SPRAGUE. 

General Augustus B. R. Sprague died at Worcester on 
May 17, 1910, at the age of 82 years. General Sprague be- 
came a soldier at 17 years of age and rose to the rank of 
Brigadier-General, to which he was promoted for conspicuous 
bravery. On his return to civil life he held many prominent 
positions, among others. Mayor of Worcester. In an apprecia- 
tion of him published at the time of his death occurs these 
significant words: 

"Worcester's last Civil War veteran of General's rank passes 
with the death of General Augustus B. R. Sprague. He was 
one of a notable number of war heroes who for a good part of 
two generations have been active in the life of Worcester and 



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served to teach the lesson that the men who made the best 
soldiers could turn at the call of peace and win distinction and 
honor as citizens of a great city. Worcester had its share of 
war heroes of whom it is fittingly proud and to whom it does 
honor: General Devens, General Ward, General Goodell, 
General Pickett, Major McCafferty, Major Stiles, the battle 
heroes, Sergeant Plunkett and Captain Tom O'Neil and 
McConville — all these, against each of whose names the 
asterisk of death is now found set, a group of men whose lives 
and deeds make up a history of which Worcester may well be 
proud and whose memories she may long cherish." 

General Sprague was one of our Charter members, our first 
Junior Vice Commander and our Commander in 1908. 

General Josiah Pickett was also one of our charter members 
and a member of the first Council. General Henry Clay 
Ward was elected a Companion June 2, 1868, and is now a 
Companion of the Commandery of the District of Columbia, 
having moved to Washington, D. C. 

WILLIAM F. DRAPER. 

General William F. Draper in his Hopedale home is memo- 
ralized by a monument over his mortal remains. He died in 
Washington, January 28, 1910. He was not only a gallant 
soldier, but a great citizen. He was early elected a Com- 
panion of our Commandery, November 3, 1868, and was a 
beneficent contributor and wise counsellor. The expense 
of furnishing a room in our Headquarters, known as the William 
F. Draper Room, filled with most interesting relics of the war, 
is a constant reminder of his munificence. He was our Com- 
mander in 1901, 1902 and 1905. The tributes paid to him, 
public and private, were such as the consensus of mankind 
reserve for those who serve their fellowmen. They cannot be 
bought; they cannot be imitated; they are of the ultimate. 
On September 25, 1912, in the presence of some 20,000 
visitors, a memorial park and bronze equestrian statue of 
General William F. Draper were dedicated in the town of 
Milford. "It was," so says the Globe of that date, "the 



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consummation of a tribute to the deeds and memory of a 
prominent soldier-citizen of Massachusetts at the hands and 
by the inspiration of a devoted wife, in which Milford gladly 
assisted to testify its appreciation of the man as well as of the 
spirit that prompted such a memorial." 

The oration of the day was delivered by Congressman 
(now Governor) Samuel W. McCall, an old friend, and nothing 
could have been more fitting and more inspiring than his 
words, delivered in the presence of such a gathering of men and 
women, representing all that was best in all classes of our 
citizen-soldiers — civilians, professional workers, members of 
Congress, military and civic societies, the sharers in the progress 
of Hopedale, all were there to bring their loving remembrances 
to a citizen who had done so much for his fellowmen, in such 
varied fields of endeavor. To many it will come as a surprise, 
perhaps, how varied were his achievements. 

First — He was himself an inventor and his whole lifework 
had to do with inventions. In later years he wrote of himself, 
"I had reached the point where I cared more for advancing 
the textile art to which I had devoted so much of my life 
than I did for the merely profitable manufacture of standard 
articles." 

Second — He enlisted as a private when nineteen years of 
age and left Milford for the seat of war with his company, 
which had made him Second Lieutenant, and he was a Brevet 
Brigadier-General at twenty-two. He was a real flesh and 
blood soldier and not a sham one. In the Wilderness cam- 
paign he was struck down with an almost mortal wound. On 
his recovery he was bravely fighting again. 

Third — He served two terms as a Bepresentative in Con- 
gress, and also as Ambassador to Italy. Wherever he was 
called to do service he was equal to the requirements of the 
situation; he impressed his colleagues and friends with his 
sound and quick judgment, his kindly nature and good sense, 
and his power to state his position with clearness and force. 

He was well equipped, too, by study and needed no inter- 
preters. He spoke French fluently and had a working knowl- 



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edge of Italian and German. No one who had the privilege 
of social and personal contact with him can forget his good 
sense, his good nature and his fund of interesting information 
upon a wide range of common and curious subjects, which 
made conversation with him at once delightful and instructive. 
To us of the Commandery he was a real Companion, a liberal, 
a generous-minded man, earnest in promoting the progress of 
the Order through our Commandery and serving us wisely and 
well, with enthusiasm and discrimination, as Commander 
three separate terms. 

FRANCIS A. OSBORN. 

Brevet Brigadier-General Francis A. Osborn, a charter 
member and the first Commander of our Commandery, died 
at Hingham, Mass., March 11, 1914, and was buried there 
with impressive military ceremony. The church was crowded 
with notable men of the United States Army, friends and rela- 
tives, all the arrangements being in charge of the Commandery 
of Massachusetts. Our Companions, General Robert H. 
Stevenson, Major Charles B. Amory, Colonel Arnold A. Rand 
and General Luther Stephenson, were honorary pallbearers. 
He was the last survivor of our Charter members. 

General Osborn of late years was not often seen among us, 
and so to many of the younger Companions he is hardly a 
name. Yet in the early days of the Commandery, and 
especially as our first Commander, he was a conspicuous figure at 
our meetings, a gentleman of great personal charm and with 
a fine record as a soldier. As Colonel of the Twenty-fourth 
Massachusetts Infantry he counted among his closest friends 
many of the men who were first elected and who made our 
Commandery so interesting as a gathering place of officers 
with tastes, memories and associations in common. The 
interval from 1868 to 1914 is almost the entire term of our 
history, and to the few remaining Companions of his first days 
with us General Osborn remains still the never forgettable 
figure of a courtly gentleman and a charming Companion. 



88 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

ARTHUR LITTLE. 

In 1908, Rev. Arthur Little, United States Volunteers, the 
Chaplain of the Eleventh Vermont Infantry and later of the 
First Vermont Heavy Artillery, became the Chaplain of this 
Commandery. He died at West Newton, Massachusetts, 
April 11, 1915, at the age of seventy-eight years. His death 
is fresh in our memories and his devotion to high service can 
never be forgotten. His character, his ability, his patriotism, 
his abounding love and charity were as simple and as simply 
displayed as his daily life. The memorial services in his own 
church, the Second Congregational of Dorchester, on the 
sixteenth of May, 1915, were of the most interesting and most 
personal character. No one could ask more for any friend 
than he then received. To deserve such tribute was itself a 
monument. It is reported there were present about four 
hundred ministers of different denominations to do honor to 
his memory. The Loyal Legion was represented by Com- 
mander, Colonel Francis S. Hesseltine, who made an address 
on the occasion, and by many Companions. 

OUR THIRD CLASS COMPANIONS. 

Service is not a thing to be weighed or measured by scales 
or yardstick. It is far above the material plane in our final 
estimate of it, but events often afford conspicuous oppor- 
tunities which bring home to a community a realization of the 
selflessness back of service, and the glow of this endures like 
"a good deed in a naughty world." Our Third Class Com- 
panions, as we read their names, seemed filled with all the 
ardor, the glow, the self sacrifice, the patriotism of any soldier 
in the field, any sailor on the sea, whatever rank the country 
may have given him. To illustrate this thought a few words 
of contemporary appreciation of our Third Class Companions 
may fittingly be recorded here. 

In the Boston Transcript of July 27, 1895, there is a pregnant 
article entitled, "Civilians in the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion of the United States," from which the following sum- 



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mary is made or quoted. Unfortunately the article is too 
long to be inserted here in its entirety. It was republished by 
the Commandery under direction of the Board of Officers, 
August 5, 1895: 

"It has sometimes been asked why a military organization 
formed to cherish the memories and associations of the war 
waged in defence of the Republic should admit to its ranks and 
accord honors to civilians." 

After calling attention to the provisions that the Com- 
panions of the Third Class shall never exceed the ratio of one 
in thirty-three and that no Companion of the Third Class shall 
be elected after April 15, 1890, and that the election is by 
secret ballot and must be unanimous, there follow these words: 

"The Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, which 
had also jurisdiction in Rhode Island, saw an opportunity to 
recognize that magnificent service which was rendered without 
pay or hope of reward, by men who could not serve in the 
ranks, or as commissioned officers, but who from positions of 
influence were moulding public sentiment, sustaining the 
National Government, devoting time, money and all the 
energy of their patriotic, earnest natures to the suppression of 
the Rebellion as truly and as helpfully as those who fought 
at the front." The Union was not saved by bullet and 
bayonet alone. The men of counsel, the controllers of 
finance, the power of the press and the pulpit — all joined to 
render success possible. The Commandery of the State of 
Massachusetts selected wisely the men it designed to honor 
for conspicuous and consistent loyalty. Who could represent 
the power of the pulpit more truly than Phillips Brooks and 
Edward Everett Hale, or the power of literature more grandly 
than did James Russell Lowell and John G. Whittier.*^ 

"Governor Andrew had already been elected to membership 
in Pennsylvania, but the Commandery of Massachusetts 
could still recognize the debt of gratitude the whole country 
owed to those officers of his staff. Colonel Henry Lee, General 
John H. Reed and Surgeon General Dale. 

"Who did more to maintain the financial stabihty of the 



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country than John M. Forbes, WilUam Endicott, Jr., or Henry 
P. Kidder, or who were more prominent in that society which 
today commands the admiration of the world, that grandest 
auxihary of the Government, the Sanitary Commission, than 
Frederick Law Olmsted and Frank B. Fay? How modestly 
all their work was done. Who ever knew on this side of the 
Continent that Joseph B. Thomas, then of San Francisco, 
when asked to subscribe one thousand dollars to the Sanitary 
Commission, almost indignantly refused, because the amount 
asked seemed so to underrate the necessities of the work, 
and then gave one thousand dollars in gold each month 
while the war lasted and during more than twenty-four 
months? Who of the younger generation would know that 
Frederick W. Lincoln, as Mayor of Boston, by his tact and 
energy saved the city from disastrous riot? The Loyal 
Legion in honoring such men has but honored itself. 

The Legion has no funeral ritual, but it was recognized that 
its members might be borne to their last rest in some marked 
manner and so, as linking war service with that of the active 
service of today, details have been asked from the militia to 
act as bearers — that draped in their country's flag, and upon 
the shoulders of their successors in duty and service, the 
veterans might pass from our sight. As a fitting close of the 
church ceremonies at one of the early funerals the organ and 
cornet played 'The Lost Chord,' and as the notes echoed 
through the arches of Trinity Church and the closing strains 
told, not of death but of life and victory, the Legion from that 
moment adopted it as its requiem. The jubilant notes of 
Victory die away and the bugles sound 'Taps,' that saddest 
and sweetest of all the army calls, 'Good night until the 
morning breaks.' " 

Brief is the record in the Register of the Commandery of the 
men elected to the Order as its Third Class Members, but every 
name could be elaborated and tell of loyal devotion and 
patriotic act, and the community may well be asked to 
recognize these gentlemen, who in civil life were especially 
distinguished for conspicuous and consistent loyalty. 



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Of these twenty-three Companions not one is now Hving. 
Their mere names carry a wealth of memories and associations 
to those who knew them; and to those who did not, the record 
here will, it is fondly believed, awaken anew impulses to 
patriotism. The last survivor of them, WiUiam Endicott, 
no longer "Junior," died on the sixth day of November, 1914, 
in his eighty-ninth year. Of him and of some others, a few 
words may be added, without impropriety, later in these 
Annals. Here is the Recorded Roster: 

Henry Ingersoll Rowditch. — An early advocate for humane 
and systematic relief of suffering among the wounded; a 
constant volunteer in all emergencies for active service on the 
medical staff in the field; responding with personal service, 
with pen and with purse to every patriotic call. 

Phillips Rrooks. — An orator whose voice from the pulpit 
gave no uncertain sound ; his service was conspicuous, and his 
loyalty a moral force. The special services he rendered are 
best expressed in these words of General Meade, at the third 
reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac in 1871: 
"I have known him for a long time, and, during the war, in 
the pulpit which he occupied in Philadelphia. I have personal 
knowledge of his eminent services, not only in the hospitals, 
ministering to the sick and dying, but by his fervid eloquence 
in the pulpit and elsewhere, stirring patriotic hearts to greater 
work, and sustaining those who went to the front for their 
country." Chaplain of the Commandery, 1889-1893. 

Wilham Johnson Dale. — Devoted and earnest in all loyal 
service; Surgeon-General (Colonel), State of Massachusetts, 
June 13, 1861; Surgeon-General (Rrigadier General), October 
17, 1863; acting Medical Director, U.S.A., and Acting Assist- 
ant-Surgeon, U. S. A., 1861-1865. 

William Endicott, Jr. — An earnest supporter by influence 
and means of all measures for the maintenance of the war 
and the preservation of the Union ; a generous friend to the 
soldier; a most loyal citizen. 

Franklin Rrigham Fay. — Especially prominent (serving with 
troops at the front) in self-sacrificing care for the sick and 



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wounded, from First Bull Run until January, 1865; the 
organizer and chief of the Auxiliary Relief Corps of the 
Sanitary Commission in the field, May, 1864; Mayor of Chel- 
sea, 1861, 1862, 1863. 

John Murray Forbes. — Foremost in helpfulness in 1861; 
conspicuous for earnest and devoted service throughout the 
war. Senior Vice-Commander of the Commandery, 1885- 
1886. 

Edward Everett Hale. — Earnest in all patriotic action; a 
man of peace defending and advocating a war for right. 
Chaplain of the Commandery, 1893. 

William Warner Hoppin. — Prominent in hospital service, 
giving personal attention and much money for the relief of 
suffering; with voice and pen an earnest supporter of Govern- 
ment; with cheering confidence in the success of the right; 
held in honor by his fellow-citizens of Rhode Island for loyalty 
and devotion to his country. 

Henry Purkitt Kidder, — Constantly consulted on subjects 
of finance by State and National Governments; munificent in 
gifts in support of all loyal interests; earnest in all patriotic 
service. 

Edward Wilkinson Kinsley. — The friend and trusted agent 
of John Albion Andrew in supervision of Massachusetts troops 
in the field; earnest and successful in recruiting service; de- 
voted to all soldier interests. 

Henry Lee. — Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-Camp, staff" of 
the Governor of Massachusetts, January, 1861, to June 9, 
1864; distinguished for earnest service in the formation of 
regiments in 1861, and for helpfulness throughout the war. 

Frederic Walker Lincoln. — As Mayor of the City of Boston 
during the war rendered special patriotic service in recruiting, 
and in energetic action during the draft riot. Wherever a 
soldier's need was known, his was a ready hand. 

James Lovell Little. — Eminent in devotion during the early 
days of the war, rendering efficient service in recruiting by 
personal effort, and always conspicuous for his care of soldiers 
and their families. 



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James Russell Lowell. — His wise and patriotic words guided 
the public mind to lofty principle, as the heroic deeds of 
others of his name and lineage aided on the battlefield in 
saving the \ation. 

Edward Carrington Mauran. — Adjutant-General of the 
State of Rhode Island, with rank of Brigadier-General from 
June 26, 1856, until Jan. 28, 1875, receiving a resolution of 
thanks from the General Assembly for able and efficient dis- 
charge of duty; distinguished in the administration of his 
office throughout the war, as well as for liberality to all soldier 
interests and for devoted patriotism. 

Frederic Law Olmsted. — The first secretary of the United 
States Sajiitary Commission, the aims of which were carried 
out to success largely through his organizing faculty. Through 
his efforts three regiments of colored troops were raised in New 
York. He was the centre of all patriotic movement in New 
York city, the organizer of that great fair which realized one 
million dollars for the Sanitary Commission; the originator 
of the Loyal Pubhcation Society and the Protective War- 
Claim Association. His loyalty was supreme, his service 
peerless. 

Henry Lillie Pierce. — Member of the Legislature of Massa- 
chusetts, 1860, 1861, 1862 (chairman of the Committee on 
Finance), 1866; representative in Congress of the United 
States, forty-third and forty-fourth sessions; Mayor of 
Boston, 1873 and 1877. 

John Hooper Reed. — Quartermaster-General of the State 
of Massachusetts, with rank of Brigadier-General, April 19, 
1861, to Jan. 9, 1869, rendering devoted and efficient service 
with marked ability. 

Alexander Hamilton Rice. — Member of the Naval Com- 
mittee, United States House of Representatives, in the Thirty- 
seventh Congress ; chairman of said committee in the Thirty- 
eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses; one of the founders of 
the National Sailors' Home at Quincy, and its president since 
1869; Governor of Massachusetts, 1876, 1877, 1878. 

John Codman Ropes. — Earnest in loyal influence and in 



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assistance to troops in the field; an exceptionally diligent 
student, and able writer on the history of the war. 

Joseph Brown Thomas. — Especially active and eminent in 
maintaining the supremacy of the National Government, as 
a member of the Committee of Safety in California, in 1861; 
munificent in contribution to the Sanitary and Christian Com- 
missions; a generous donor to the Soldiers' Home in Massa- 
chusetts, and earnest in support of all soldier charities. 

Gardiner Tufts. — Military Agent of the State of Massa- 
chusetts at Washington from Jan. 18, 1862, to July, 1870. 
While serving in that capacity was, in 1863, appointed by the 
Secretary of War Inspector of Military Hospitals and Prisons 
for the Department of Washington; commissioned Major 
and additional Paymaster, United States Volunteers, June 
28, 1864 — declined; appointed by the Governor of Massa- 
chusetts, in 1864, Assistant Provost-Marshal, with the rank 
of Lieutenant-Colonel. 

John Greenleaf Whittier. — A pioneer whose life service has 
been for hberty and country. His poetry will ever be an 
inspiration to patriotism. 

It is for such reasons that the Loyal Legion accords all 
honors to men whose names and deeds are a part of their 
country's history. 

PHILLIPS BROOKS. 

The funeral of our Chaplain and beloved Companion, 
Bishop Phillips Brooks, in Trinity Church, on the 27th of 
January, 1893, was probably as genuine an outpouring of 
human affection and tender memory as was ever witnessed in 
Boston. His mortal body in its open casket within the vesti- 
bule of his own Trinity Church was surrounded by a body- 
guard of his Companions of this Commandery, and for hours 
a stream of people, male and female, old and young, rich and 
poor, white and black, passed by that coffin and looked upon 
his face, transfigured in death, and sighed or sobbed and 
passed on. As one of the bodyguard, the writer can attest the 
facts recorded and the unforgettable incidents of that day: 



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it seemed a welling up of love for as human a man as ever 
lived among us. On the 22d of January, 1910, the long delayed 
bronze statue of Phillips Brooks by Saint Gaudens was placed 
outside the walls of Trinity Church and was dedicated with 
great ceremony. The whole world seemed gathered to pay 
renewed homage to his memory. Churchmen and laymen vied 
Avith each other in renewed expressions of affection and honor 
to that enduring personality. Whatever may be said of the 
statue itself and as to its adequacy to portray the man as he 
was, it does link his name to the Church and to the Boston 
he loved and that loved him. 

EDWARD EVERETT HALE. 

Edward Everett Hale is a name to conjure with. "The 
Grand Old Man of Boston," our friend and Companion, every- 
body's friend and Companion, for that matter, died at Ms 
home in Roxbury, Mass., June 10, 1909, full of years and 
honors. He was our Chaplain, succeeding Bishop Brooks in 
1893, and remaining with us till 1907. In our Public Garden 
you salute his statue as you pass by — for the face, the well- 
known attitude, the hat, even, we all loved bring him before 
us as he lived; and children now, as in his lifetime, look into 
his face knowing he will greet them with a smile and a word of 
cheer and perhaps invite them "to lend a hand." Such men 
never die. 

FRANKLIN BRIGHAM FAY. 

Among our Third Class Companions the name of Franklin 
Brigham Fay, "The Grand Old Man of Chelsea," as he was 
affectionately called, must find conspicuous place. Our Com- 
panion, the son of Francis B. Fay, the first Mayor of Chelsea 
after it became a city, was born in 1821 and died on the 20th 
of March, 1904. He was Mayor of Chelsea in 1861-62-63 and 
during these three years he was known as the "War Mayor." 
He was elected to our Commandery May 7, 1873. Notwith- 
standing his official duties he, during the wartime, spent 
almost all his time at the front. He felt it his privilege as 



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Mayor to care for his soldiers from Chelsea who had gone to 
the front, and he followed them from camp to camp. He 
was with them on the march and he roamed over the battle- 
fields ministering to the wounded and identifying the dead. 
He was one of the pioneers in organizing the Sanitary Com- 
mission and was among the first to urge the acceptance of 
women nurses at the front. He was on the field of both 
battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, 
Cold Harbor, the Wilderness Campaign and entered Peters- 
burg with the Union Army. He had no time to come home 
during the Mayoralty campaigns, but was reelected for 1862 
and 1863. He organized the "Auxihary Relief Corps" in 
1864 and served as Chief until 1865, then he went back to 
his independent work among the men. His modesty amounted 
to a total self forgetfulness. 

When in 1880 the Massachusetts Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty to Children was actively organized Mr. Fay 
was appointed General Agent. He was the children's cham- 
•pion, and yet his methods were so wise, sane and fair that 
in twenty-three years service he never entangled his society 
in a lawsuit. There was not an ounce of sentimentality in his 
makeup to overbalance his judgment. He was one of the 
Trustees of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Fund and through his 
efforts largely $3,000,000 was distributed among Massachu- 
setts soldiers and their families. In conclusion, for his whole 
life is worthy a record here, let these further words be quoted : 

"He was a Companion of the Massachusetts Commandery 
of the Loyal Legion of the United States, being one of the 
very few civiHans in Massachusetts permitted to wear the 
Loyal Legion button. 'Third Class Men' they are technically 
called, but essentially 'First Class Men' as regards the esteem 
in which they are held by the society, for only the most dis- 
tinguished service to the country wins this honor for a civilian. 
To Mr. Fay was given the honor in recognition of life-saving 
and health-saving during the war. His fellow-Companions 
always gave him the heartiest of greetings at the banquets 
and gatherings. His home life was as beautiful as his more 



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public ministrations were active. He possessed a rose garden 
which was his delight and pastime and in which he and his 
wife spent much of the comparatively little leisure time they 
allowed themselves. Mr. Fay possessed a strong personality. 
He looked every inch a soldier, as he was of uncommon 
height and large frame and carried himself with an uncon- 
sciously noble dignity. With his white hair and beard, his 
fine head and strong, kind face he seemed a military Com- 
mander, or better still, a fearless prophet." 

Those of us who knew him as he walked among us, day by 
day, will appreciate the correctness and significance of the 
description. 

WILLIAM ENDICOTT. 

William Endicott, the last survivor of our Third Class 
Companions, died at his home in Boston on the sixth of 
November, 1914, in his eighty-ninth year. He was a Boston 
merchant of the highest type, an anti-slavery man by con- 
viction, a patriot of patriots, giving of his service to his 
country, his State and his city from his youth upwards. He 
realized the words of the poet, "An honest man, the noblest 
work of God." Our Companion, Major Henry L. Higginson, 
who knew him as he was, wrote this of Mr. Endicott, and who 
could have or wish higher tribute .^^ 

"As a wise and successful merchant, as a patriotic, able and 
high-minded citizen, as a helper in every cause, large or small, 
Mr. Endicott was prompt and hearty, and he was sought as 
a friend by the best men of our community. Apparently he 
never considered himself or his own interests, but only that 
which was good for others. But the one thing he did seek was 
the respect and aff"ection of his fellows and his friends, and he 
certainly had it in full measure and running over. He is a 
great loss to the community in which he had lived, as he had 
been a great help during his lifetime. Such men make a 
country such as we all wish for— men who remember men 
and women as God made them." 

In reading the glowing pages of the deeds of our deceased 



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Companions one finds himself overcome by the glory of their 
achievements. He seems to breathe the air of an heroic age 
and wonders whether he, too, was of it. Carlyle has told 
us that no age is an heroic age unto itself. There is need of 
perspective. Your Annalist while he throbs under the review 
he has been making has felt abashed that he can cull but a 
few names from the roll of heroes. But the necessity to curb 
the desire to add one more name to this lengthening roll of 
Companions, so tenderly remembered and so visible before 
our eyes, is emphasized by the thought that the roster of 
Our Dead includes upwards of thirteen hundred names. It is 
necessarily beyond, far beyond the scope of these Annals to 
even attempt the review of their lives and services. Rather 
in a few lines taken from the great poet of the East let us con- 
centrate our Requiem of them, and even seek an answer to 
the Riddle of the Universe, which our common humanity has 
asked in all the ages. 

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best 
That from his Vintage roUing Time hath prest, 
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, 
And one by one crept silently to rest. 

Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who 
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through. 
Not one returns to tell us of the Road, 
Which to discover we must travel, too. 

■ — Rubaiyat of Omar Kiiayyam. 



OUR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 

The notice of the meeting is as follows : — 

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE 

UNITED STATES 
HEADQUARTERS, COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF 

MASSACHUSETTS 

Boston, February 25, 1918. 
A Stated Meeting of this Commandery will be held at the Hotel 
Brunswick, cor. Boylston and Clarendon Streets, Boston, Wednesday 
evening, March 6, 1918, at 5.30 o'clock. 



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On this day we celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the organiza- 
tion of the Commandery of Massachusetts. 

The exigencies of the times and compliance with the appeal of President 
Wilson compel us to abridge, on this occasion, the general and generous 
hospitality we all would prefer. A programme has been arranged, however, 
in harmony with the traditions of our Order and of this Commandery. 

It is expected that the Recorder-in-Chief, Lieutenant-Colonel John 
P. Nicholson, will be present and address the Commandery. Captain 
Henry N. Blake will read an address written by our late Companion, 
Colonel Arnold A. Rand, on "The Loyal Legion." Major Horace Bum- 
stead will give some early recollections of Right Reverend Phillips Brooks, 
Chaplain of this Commandery, 1889-1892. Other addresses will probably 
be made. • 

Dinner will be served after the business meeting. Immediately after 
dinner there will be singing by the Companions. 

The sixth day of March was fast approaching and arrange- 
ments were made for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary 
of our organization at the Hotel Brunswick on the evening 
of that day. Our honored Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant- 
General Samuel B. M. Young, being unable to be present 
because of absence in Florida, our especial guest was the 
Recorder-in-Chief, Colonel John P. Nicholson. The Com- 
mittee of Arrangements and individual Companions united 
in the urgent request that he would be with us on the occasion, 
so significant in our history. Personal and official invitations 
were also sent to the Commanders of the Commanderies of 
Pennsylvania, New York and Maine, which antedated us in 
organization, and they were assured how greatly their presence 
would add to our pleasure. Unfortunately, from illness and 
other causes, they were obliged to send their good wishes and 
regrets as they could not be personally present. It would have 
been the wish of the Commandery at any other time to send 
broadcast their invitations to other Companions in every 
State, but mindful of the earnest admonition and request of 
the President of the United States to abate excess of every 
kind, they were obliged to repress inclination for duty, and 
they therefore restricted even the dinner itself to the most 
moderate requirements compatible with the occasion. 

The Committee of Arrangements laid out a simple program, 



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one which was closely followed. It was determined by them 
that it should be purely a Military gathering of Loyal Legion 
men, and of other men now in the service of their Country in 
a military or naval capacity. It may be added there were 
186 members of our Commandery and other guests at the 
dinner; that the speeches that were made are printed herein 
at the request of Companions present and absent. With 
sincere regret one address only is omitted and that the one 
from the lips of our past Commander, Major Henry L. Hig- 
ginson, who spoke to us words full of patriotic inspiration, 
delivered with unmistakable conviction and rare emphasis. 
Unfortunately, there was no stenographer present to preserve 
these words. When the next day Major Higginson was asked 
to supply a copy of his address, his answer was he had written 
nothing: that he knew he had said many things to his mates 
that he might not have said to others, because their presence 
recalled times when they had served together, but that he 
could not, even if he wished, recall the language and that 
what he said must be remembered, if at all, by those who had 
heard it. 

The order of exercises at the dinner of the Commandery of 
Massachusetts on the evening of March 6, 1918, at the Hotel 
Brunswick, Boston, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary 
of the organization of the Commandery, was closely followed. 
The necrology for the month preceding was read by the 
Chaplain and "Taps" sounded. The Commander then 
ordered "The Assembly" to be sounded, which having been 
done, he read the following verses written by him for the 
occasion : 

"SOUND THE ASSEMBLY !" 

"Comrades of the heart and hand 
Comrades of our chosen band — ■ 
We who read our title clear 
From our martyred Chieftain's bier, 
Come and keep our natal day, 
Wake the vision far away 
When you bowed the aching head. 
When you wept your Captain dead. 



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"Comrades here and comrades there, 
Comrades of the everywhere. 
Though your footsteps leave no trail, 
Touch with us the Holy Grail, 
Filled with martyr's blood, as when 
The great Avatar died for men. 
Martyred Lincoln — martyred Lord 
Death Triumphant — their reward. 

"Comrades of our fifty years. 
Comrades of our joys and tears. 
Sharers in the sacred birth 
Of our Order here on earth; 
Let your bugles rend the air, — 
Greet your Comrades everywhere; 
Loyal to their Country's sod, 
Loyal to the living God." 

A delightful feature of the evening was the singing under 
the direction of our Registrar, C. Peter Clark, the selections 
being appropriate and stirring and as varied as the subjects 
suggested by the various speakers. 

After the dinner the Commander, Henry M. Rogers, 
made the following address of welcome: 

Companions: — We are assembled this evening to celebrate 
the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Commandery 
of the State of Massachusetts of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion of the United States. And first of all, I bid you 
welcome to this memorable occasion. I am grateful beyond 
words to see among our numbers so many who began their 
association with the Commandery in the very first year of its 
organization and so many more associated with its earliest 
years. I rejoice and congratulate you that our organization 
is not a dead thing, dwelling in a dead past, but a living, virile, 
creative body, conscious of the past but not living in it — 
grateful for its memories, but not dwelling in them alone; 
conscious, too, of the significance of the hour and of its duties 
and opportunities. 

We rejoice that to-day we have on our roll 610 members — 
living, active men — breathing God in their aspirations, resting 



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their souls in the two great principles of our Order: Faith and 
Trust in Almighty God, Unswerving Fidelity and Loyalty to 
the United States of America. Our young men are our joy, 
our hope and our pride. The new Roll of Honor, composed 
of our younger Companions and upwards of 35 in number, 
is swelling day by day, and as we send them forth with mois- 
ture in our eyes, with trembling benedictions on our lips, our 
fighting hearts swell with pride that our sons, too, have fight- 
ing hearts and red blood in their veins ; that they have conse- 
crated themselves, as did their fathers before them, to the cause 
of liberty, to ideals of freedom of mind and of soul, to that 
equality of opportunity won by their fathers some fifty years 
ago in this Country under the leadership of Abraham Lin- 
coln, — and now menaced by the most scientific barbarism 
and most powerful forces ever arrayed against human progress 
since the world began. I rejoice and congratulate you that 
upwards of 2,000 men, taken from all the varied walks of life, 
have been members of our Commandery, filled with its spirit, 
the equals in manhood of a like number of men anywhere in 
any epoch of history, and that those who have gone before 
are fighting our battles today, somewhere and somehow, as 
surely as God lives and as that Truth shall ultimately prevail. 
We were the fourth of the great Commanderies to be organized, 
Pennsylvania, our parent Commandery, New York and Maine 
having alone preceded us in chronological succession. Of that 
parent Commandery, Pennsylvania, other lips than mine will 
speak, but I may be pardoned for a brief allusion. On that 
fateful 15th day of April, 1865, when the news came to a 
stricken world that Abraham Lincoln was dead, a few officers 
gathered in Philadelphia resolved to attend the funeral of their 
murdered Chief, as a bodyguard, and later to form an organi- 
zation to perpetuate the principles for which he had lived, 
worked, suffered and died. 

Today 21 Commanderies from Maine to California are 
bound in indissoluble ties of relationship to the Commandery 
of Pennsylvania and to the principles it crystallized into en- 
during realities on the 15th day of April, 1865. Upwards of 



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17,800 officers of the Civil War and their sons and successors 
have legally worn the Insignia of our great Order. Its Roster 
bears the names of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Hancock, 
Meade, Devens, Hayes, Farragut, Porter, and thousands of 
others equally brave, equally great, equally patriotic. And 
these leaders of men, without exception, recognized the fact 
that they of themselves could do nothing except through the 
patriotic bravery, loyalty, self-abnegation and heroism of 
their followers of the rank and file, of the men behind the guns. 
We are not a caste — we are not exclusive — we are not set 
apart — we do not arrogate to ourselves anything; but we do 
justly claim a share, as a part of a great people, in the triumph 
of Abraham Lincoln, after a struggle of seventy-five years, in 
wiping out that blot upon our escutcheon. Human Slavery, 
and in the exaltation of a Nation standing before the world 
emancipated, regenerated, disenthralled, pledged to the 
perpetuation of the cry wrung from the heart of man ; equality 
of opportunity under the law, with no questions asked as to 
station in life, creed or color. 

Our Charles Devens has told us that the day after the fall 
of Richmond he rode in the Headquarters wagon side by side 
with Abraham Lincoln through the streets of the captured 
Confederate stronghold. That Mr. Lincoln seemed to him 
weary and tired, graver than he had ever seen him, less re- 
joicing in the triumph that had been won than anxious about 
the new .problems looming up before him. He seemed like 
one who felt that his life's work was done and would willingly 
rest from his labors that his works might follow him. My 
friends, that picture to me is overwhelming in its sanctity. 
It was the foreshadowing of his martyrdom, the foreshadowing 
of the fact that he already belonged to the ages. Companions, 
we are pledged to the principles for which he died. Nothing 
human, nothing divine so far as fallible judgment can interpret 
can forgive a departure on our part from these principles: 
Fidelity to God — Fidehty to Country — Equality of Oppor- 
tunity. 

During the past fifty years our Country has wandered far 



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from its ideals. Selfishness, wealth, indifference, pride of 
heart, greed, ambition have supplanted the elementary and 
basic foundations of our Republic, plain living and high think- 
ing. In God's providence a great and overwhelming cry for 
help has come to us — a cry to buckle on our armor and once 
more join the army of Freedom: to put aside self and selfish 
things, death's counterfeit; to awake to realities and obliga- 
tions, to rise to the full stature of manhood and womanhood, — 
to place our Country in the van of the contending forces of free- 
dom, no longer a laggard, and to put every ounce of our united 
effort in this new struggle for emancipation. I call on you, 
Companions, I call on our Companions throughout the 
Nation, to unite, as never before, to uphold the principles of 
Abraham Lincoln and once more, by precept and example, 
to see to it that those principles shall endure in our own land 
and become the rallying cry of the bleeding and crucified 
nations of the earth. Companions, is it not well for us once 
more to invoke the presence of our great leader — once more 
to dedicate ourselves to all that he believed — and in a hymn 
of the Loyal Legion, in united voice, to ask his intervention 
at this time when Freedom is again in peril .^ 

Knyal fogion l^ymtt 

Ahraljam IGtttcaht 

February 12, 1809— February 12, 1918. 

We are sailing, Father Abraham, a milUon men and more 
To fight the battle of the Right upon a foreign shore ; 
Your spirit still wiU guide us as in that elder day 
You showed the path to Freedom, and dying, blazed the way; 
'Tis Freedom stiU we're seeking, the Freedom of the World, 
From shackles worse than Slavery: — Our flag is now unfurled 
In consecrated battle against a foreign Ghoul 
Whose madness would enthral the mind and crucify the Soul. 
The Flag you loved and died for will surely lead the van 
Of heroes pledged to Freedom and Brotherhood of Man. 
Look down upon your people, look down upon your land. 
Once more become our leader, stretch out your helping hand : 



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We know the God who took you and keeps you near His heart 

Will spare you from His Kingdom to take your people's part, 

To help them win the battle that leads to lasting peace, 

That binds up wounds of mind and heart and bids war's terrors cease, 

That purifies the Earth for God and God's anointed Son: — 

Then, Abraham, return to God, your work once more is done. 

JOHN P. NICHOLSON. 

The Commander introduced Lieutenant-Colonel John P. 
Nicholson, the Recorder-in-Chief, as follows: "Who is the 
Loyal Legion .^^ Who, in Eastern phrase, is its father and its 
mother.^ The twenty offspring of the Commandery of Penn- 
sylvania, for nearly forty years, have looked to one man alone 
for guidance in the path they should tread. He has been a 
strict and rigid parent; like all such he has given his family 
opportunity to disagree ; but they have kicked in vain against 
the pricks. What has saved our parent from real opposition 
has been our love for him, founded on profound respect, 
for as soldier, patriot, man, he has deserved our affection, our 
confidence, our loyal devotion. Here, at least, we can take 
what may seem a mean advantage of him, and ask him to 
give tongue to the faith that is in him. I deem it a high 
privilege and honor to present to you your Recorder-in-Chief, 
Colonel John P. Nicholson." 

Colonel Nicholson was received with the greatest enthusiasm, 
the whole company rising to its feet and the chorus singing an 
appropriate song of welcome. Colonel Nicholson with 
emotion and eloquence spoke as follows : 

"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and I have brought 
nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together." — Montaigne. 

"Companions: — When I stand in your presence I feel like a 
man in a sanctuary. The Mihtary Order of the Loyal Legion 
of the United States acknowledges as its fundamental 
principles: 

"First — A firm belief and trust in Almighty God, 
extolling Him under whose beneficent guidance the sover- 
eignty and integrity of the LTnion have been mantained, the 



106 IMILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

honor of the Flag vindicated, and the blessings of civil liberty 
secured, established and enlarged. 

"Second — True allegiance to the United States of America, 
based upon paramount respect for and fidelity to the National 
Constitution and Laws, manifested by discountenancing what- 
ever may tend to weaken loyalty, incite to insurrection, 
treason or rebellion, or impair in any manner the efficiency 
and permanency of our free institutions. 

"The founders of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 
the LInited States, it perhaps may be fairly said, were the first 
among his countrymen to dedicate a monument to Abraham 
Lincoln. Other memorials speedily followed in prose and 
verse, in marble, granite and bronze, and of every other con- 
ceivable material and form. The best minds in our Country 
and abroad have vied with each other to give adequate 
expression to the thoughts and feelings of all good men when 
they meditate upon Lincoln, upon his character, his words and 
his deeds, and when they reflect on the amazing contrasts 
presented by his life and by his death. . . . We cannot 
choose, but remember always with unstinted admiration the 
noble lines of Lowell, in his famous Commemoration Ode, 
recited at the Harvard memorial services in honor of her 
fallen sons, when he hung that fitting and splendid wreath on 
Lincoln's 'world honored urn.' Americans will ever prize the 
words, wiser and shrewder than Plutarch, in which Emerson 
described Lincoln to his village friends and neighbors when they 
met together to consider their sorrow and to mourn his death. 

"Having named these three lofty tributes, I need not 
further extend the list of notable panegyrics inspired 
by Lincoln, in poetry and eloquence in all parts of the 
world. They bring us to a pivotal question: Our beloved 
Society of the Loyal Legion, what is it doing — what can it do, 
worthy of Lincoln's fame.^ May I not venture to change a 
single word in the familiar line of Coleridge, so it will read: 
'He prayeth best who doeth best.' Our highest striving then 
must be to support and to advance the work which Lincoln 
did in behalf of his country and of all the world. 



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"Upon the news in Philadelphia of the death of President 
Lincoln, a notice was issued by Colonel Zell, Captain Keyser 
and Colonel Mitchell for the Officers and Ex-Officers of the 
Army, Navy and Marine Corps in Philadelphia to assemble 
in a body and be present at the obsequies of the President in 
Philadelphia. To this call forty-two Officers and Ex-Officers 
signed their names. From that number twenty-two were 
selected as the Guard of Honor, and of that Guard of Honor 
but one Companion is now alive. Upon the permanent 
organization being effected, every Officer who signed the call 
subjected himself to promulgation as a member and for 
election, and of that number five were rejected by their Com- 
panions. The Legion is unique in the fact that there were no 
charter members, but that each and every one a Companion 
of the Order subjected himself to ballot and the vote of his 
Companions. 

"I hear men speak of the war we have gone through, and 
which I trust has happily closed in all the glory that comes to 
the flag we honor, and that you fought under, — they tell that 
we of the Armies of the Potomac, James, Tennessee and 
Cumberland, who cut the broad swath with Sherman from 
Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to the sea, and 
from Atlanta to Goldsboro to the final victory, and of the 
Navy at New Orleans and Mobile Bay, — they tell me that we 
are to be forgotten. Don't think so. I urge you to remember, 
so long as this Government exists, and it is made for the people 
and by the people, that the deeds of the Union Army and 
Navy will never be forgotten. The Nation may seem ungrate- 
ful, but it is not. Gradually, step by step, Bunker Hill to 
Yorktown made possible Vicksburg, New Orleans, Gettys- 
burg and Appomattox, and a great people will bear in grateful 
memory that you made the Government of today amid trials 
and great tribulations. When we read of the losses and the 
sufferings which our Comrades passed through, let us remember 
that in the great war in which we bore an honored part 274,- 
000 men died of disease, 56,000 from wounds in battle and 
47,000 from wounds received. With that history and deeds 



108 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

before us, it is not possible for the people of this Country to 
forget. I think the proudest heritage a man can have, the 
greatest thing he can give to his descendants, is the fact that 
he served in the great Army and Navy that made this Govern- 
ment possible, and I hope perpetual. We cannot recount the 
glories of all those splendid years in which it was our privilege 
to participate. 

"There still remain many of the witnesses of the fierce war, 
which left half a million of graves and an untold amount of 
human pain and anguish; a million of widows and orphans 
left to struggle without the support of the strong arms on which 
they had a right to lean; of the toil of more than a hundred 
years leveled to the earth and destroyed forever. Yet we hear 
men of influence contend that all this should be forgotten. It 
has long since been forgiven, and some of the very men who 
caused this state of facts share in the councils of our Govern- 
ment, and I would be the last man to will it otherwise. They 
are now our equals in all the attributes of citizenship, share in 
the common responsibilities, and I am most happy to bear 
witness that many of them manifest a most ardent desire to 
join with us in making the future more safe and glorious. We 
have welcomed them back into the family group, as was the 
Prodigal Son of old, and it may seem to some of our Union 
Comrades that it has gone too far to the prejudice of the 
remainder of the family who stood faithful all the time. This 
is one of the great political questions now on trial, and I hope 
and pray that our old antagonists will have learned wisdom, 
and by their acts prove to the world the sincerity of their 
patriotic declarations. Some of them, however, contend that 
because their individual motives were pure and honorable, they 
are entitled to the same measure of honor and glory as those 
who had the right on their side, and who by war and violence 
had to enforce submission to lawful authority. There are 
such things as right and wrong, and when history is written 
human actions must take their place in one or the other 
category. We claim that, in the great war, we of the Union 
Army and Navy were right, and our adversaries wrong, and 



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no special pleading, no excuse, no personal motives, however 
pure and specious, can change this verdict of the war. 

"I would not for the world revive the angry passions of the 
time, nor do I question the personal motives of our then 
antagonists; but I do and ever will contest the proposition 
that we should tear from the history of our country the pages 
which record the great events from 1861 to 1865; for they 
should stand there forever as a warning to those who come 
after us, — who, from passion, self-interest, or any human 
cause or pretext whatever, may undertake to destroy this 
Government by violence. No! the deeds of our dead heroes 
are already recorded in the great book of time, and marble and 
brass will continue to record them long after we are gone. To 
recall their names, Grant, Farragut, Meade, Porter, Sherman, 
Thomas, Dahlgren, Sheridan, Hancock, Devens, Gushing, 
Rand and Graven, is to feel the touch of vanished hands and 
hear voices now still. In the language of our great leader, we 
will never apologize for the deeds done in 1861-65, but will 
treasure up their memory, and on every suitable occasion, as 
long as life lasts, will present them anew to the youth of this 
Gountry as noble examples of heroism and patriotism; for 
they saved this Nation from absolute annihilation, or at the 
very least, from a long period of intestine war and anarchy. 

"Not by the power of commerce, art or pen shall our great 
empire stand, nor had it stood; but by the noble deeds of noble 
men, heroic Uves and heroes' outpoured blood. Gompanions, 
in a few years the longest hver of us will be numbered with the 
dead. He is beyond the middle life who as a lad followed the 
flag amid the smoke and thunders of the strife. Upon the 
heads of many who were then fresh lipped men the frosts of 
autumn are even now setting; and there are those among us 
upon whom age has already placed its seal of consecration. 
The recollection is not unmixed with sadness; and we feel 
ourselves drawn all the more closely together. 

"Let us neglect no duty suggested or enjoined by the 
membership, but to the full measure of our ability cheerfully 
discharge every obligation resting upon us. This organization 



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is privileged. He who claims connection with it should carry 
himself nobly. You bear upon your breasts a badge of dis- 
tinction conferred neither by fortune nor accident. Wear it 
honorably and transmit it as a legacy to be cherished by 
those who come after us even to the latest generation. In 
reading on the War in Europe today I have been struck with 
the hysteria of the correspondents in reporting the losses. 
It seems generally accepted that it (the present war) is 
altogether the greatest war in history; and so it is in one 
sense, for undoubtedly there are more men under arms than 
ever before. The very stupendousness of the affair shocks 
people so that they are not able to comprehend the details, 
much less to analyze. The individual element in it is lost 
sight of in the multitude of men engaged. But mere numbers 
or mere size are not of themselves of supreme importance in 
the estimation of human suffering and destruction. No one 
of the Nations now engaged in Europe, except perhaps 
France, is throwing into the fighting line as many men in 
proportion to their population as we in the War of the Rebellion. 
The population of the North in 1860 was about 21,000,000. 
In the course of the war we put some 3,000,000 men in the 
field, or 1 in 7 of our population. The South put in about 
1 in 5, or about the same proportion as France today. 

"The War in Europe is one of chemists and machinists and 
is not more nakedly horrible than the War of the Rebellion. 
In fact there has been such a very great advancement in the 
science of providing for the health and comfort of the soldier 
that those in Europe are spared many of the hardest things 
that we had to endure. There never was a War more destitute 
of glamor and filled fuller of mind and body wrecking dis- 
agreeables and disasters than our own War. It was man to 
man largely and the fiercest of personal combats. It was dig, 
march, fight, sleep in the rain and snow and mud, swelter to 
fainting on dusty roads under burning suns, freeze on picket, 
hunger and thirst, with one great battle following another for 
four long years, with the victory finally won only by those who 
could stand the most killing and endure the greater hardships. 



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In all my reading of official statements, today, I can find no 
records that the individual soldier suffered or endured more 
than the men of '61 to '65, and with less relief afforded for the 
sick and wounded of that time. We are living in a time of 
transition, when the old thoughts of men are contending in a 
sharp battle with the new, so sharp that the camp followers 
of the Armies of the World, idle men and women, take an 
interest and engage themselves therein in a desultory manner. 
Men and ideas astonish us and confuse; men of whom we 
thought Httle step forward and by force of strong convictions 
take a prominent place; men of low intellect, but of great 
enthusiasm, gain power; men whom we trusted as leaders slide 
back afraid of the plunge ; men who led us, now grown too old 
to accept the new results of the ideas they helped to sow, 
remain fixed in a mould which, incapable of expansion, is now 
hardening; men who were our ideals and should have given 
us impulse and hope disappoint us. Fear of the world touches, 
or weakness which had lain latent in their characters arise and 
taint their purity of purpose. Ideas trouble us more than 
men. We are hemmed in with a world of them fighting with one 
another and in the melee we cannot distinguish under what 
banner to array ourselves. There are ideas, half of the old, 
half of the new, half marble, half living men like the prince in 
the Arabian Nights and others struggling out of the soil of 
perishing thoughts like the dead in the picture of the 'Last 
Judgment.' 

"There are religious ideas borrowed from Christianity, but 
which deny its spirit; there are ideas which have all but died 
which are making a last bitter fight for life ; there are others 
just born, which as yet have only interested a few men, and 
you are in the midst of them all, seeing much you once believed 
in overthrown. Glorious things are in store for our land. 
The harvest is not yet, but if the seed so plentifully sown, — 
the dearest blood of a people, — by any augury of future yield, 
there shall be a mighty ingathering in the end. Already Time 
begins to throw his mellow tints upon past terrors. The 
tramp of many feet, the hearty cheer, the rattle of musketry, 



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the wild charge, the dull booming of the far off guns, the 
groans and shrieks of the dying, all come back as blended and 
shadowy like the scenes of an old chronicle. Ah! but who does 
not still behold those glorious legions, silent and shadowy, as 
they marched forth in war's magnificently stern array? The 
recollection of their devotion and heroism elevates and 
expands our common humanity. 

"None may measure the reward of the heroic dead nor 
balance the pain of a mother's heart, riven with anguish for 
the fair-haired boy who came not home again. Deep has been 
the suffering; but it is the inexorable law of progress. There 
is a mighty hand which gathers the little and the great. Never 
the actors at any stage of the World's progress know the 
result to be attained through their trials or triumphs. But 
it is a time for stern purpose, a time for high resolve — above 
all, a time for undaunted faith. In stern purpose, in high 
resolve, we have no fear that America will fail. The spirit 
that carried us through Brandywine, Valley Forge, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville and the black days of the Wilderness — 
that spirit, thank God, still lives in our people. The war- 
drums throb as they never throbbed before, on other fields 
and for other causes. Nevertheless, in the later crash the 
voices that commemorate the soldiers of the American War of 
the Rebellion ought not to be quite inaudible, upholding, as 
these men did, the Union, today more than ever the hope of 
the world. 

"What great ends in Government shall be wrought out of 
our united land through the glory and the suffering of the 
late war none may presume to say; but let us not doubt that 
in the time to come the philosopher and historian shall point 
to these terrific scenes and say 'Behold the Fruit.' To them 
and of them can well be spoken the words of Shakespeare's 
Henry V, on the eve of Agincourt: 'But we in it shall be 
remembered. We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers! 

At the conclusion of this address the enthusiasm, applause 
and cheers attested how sympathetically the assembled 
company had followed his words. The Companions of the 



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Massachusetts Commandery who heard this address will 
never forget the dignity and fervor of the speaker. All 
others may read the glowing periods and from them imagine 
the effect produced in their utterance. 

The address of Colonel Nicholson was followed by that of 
Major Higginson, to which reference has been made. The 
reception of Major Higginson was hearty and genuine and his 
brief speech met the high indorsement of unanimous approval. 

ADDRESS OF HORACE BUMSTEAD. 

The Commander then said: "We have been fortunate in 
our Chaplains — and not least so in our present Chaplain, 
Horace Bumstead of the Fighting Heart, who as Major of the 
43d U. S. Colored Troops proved his devotion to the cause of 
Emancipation. Two conspicuous and international figures 
are on our rolls as Chaplain — men who walked in the path of 
Peace — when they had to — Right Rev. Phillips Brooks and Rev. 
Edward Everett Hale. Phillips Brooks was a schoolteacher 
in Boston and our Chaplain knew him in those early days and 
afterwards and will tell us something of his varied experiences 
with him." 

The chorus sang, and then Chaplain Bumstead gave in a 
few introductory words the selection of his subject, "Some 
Early Recollections of the Right Reverend Phillips Brooks, 
Chaplain of this Commandery 1889-1892," and continued as 
follows : 

''Mr. Commander and Companions: — It is peculiarly fitting 
that on this fiftieth anniversary of our Commandery we should 
revive and honor the memory of our former Chaplain, Phillips 
Brooks, than whom no one in that office has been more widely 
known or held in more affectionate esteem. He was great 
not only in stature but in so many of the elements of simple, 
noble manhood that all titles of position or honor seemed to 
add nothing to his greatness and to fall into disuse as super- 
fluous. In the popular mind and speech, he was plain 'Phillips 
Brooks.' A small boy, ringing door bells for fun and running 
away, came to the preacher's house not knowing whose it was. 



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Before he could escape, the door opened and an imposing 
figure appeared. 'Why, Phillips Brooks, do you live here?' 
exclaimed the astonished urchin. Instinctively he spoke the 
language of his home. And similarly, it was the mind and 
heart of all who knew him best that is found in the simple 
inscription beneath the statue close by where we are gathered 
tonight, 'Phillips Brooks, preacher of the word of God, lover 
of mankind.' 

"We rejoice to have had such a man for our Chaplain. But 
we might never have had him for our Chaplain — the world 
might never have known him as a great preacher — had it not 
been for the early blighting of his original purpose in life. He 
had planned to become a teacher, and his first attempt in that 
direction resulted in disastrous failure. He had just been 
graduated from Harvard when he became a teacher in the 
Boston Latin School. He was wholly without experience in 
teaching and unfitted by nature to exercise the drastic methods 
of school discipline so common in those days. His failure was 
so complete that after five months trial he resigned. But it 
was a most providential failure, as it turned out, for it saved 
to the world a great preacher and patriot. 

"Now it so happens, Companions, that two of us here to- 
night — no other than your present Commander and your 
present Chaplain — were quite closely connected with that 
failure. For we two (Henry Bogers and I) were members, 
respectively, of the two classes taught by young Brooks. 
There was a marked difference in the character of these two 
classes, and it will presently appear to which one because of 
its superfluity of naughtiness belongs the chief distinction of 
turning the tide of providence in the life of their teacher. In 
telling you some tales out of school, at the invitation of my old 
schoolmate, I shall draw upon my own memory, aided by the 
interesting biography of Brooks by the late Professor A. V. G. 
Allen. Let me add that your Commander and I agree to 
waive all questions of personal responsibility for the merits or 
demerits of our respective classes. 

"It was, then, at the Boston Pubhc Latin School that I 



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first met Phillips Brooks, in September, 1855. This was the 
first month of his teaching and the beginning of my second 
year in the school. I was fourteen years old and he still under 
twenty. As I recall him today, he seemed like a 'big boy' — 
almost one of us — and rather inclined to enjoy our innocent 
mischief about as much as we did. We used to roll marbles 
across the floor under the desks and fire spitballs at the walls. 
He was very nearsighted, and his glasses were focussed better 
for reading print than for detecting mischief. Still, he wrote 
of us afterwards as 'splendid little fellows,' and I still possess 
a good pack of weekly 'approbation cards' with his autograph 
endorsed on their backs. Writing to a friend in this first 
month of his teaching, he praised the intelligence and brilliance 
in the faces of the Latin School boys, and commented on 
their sharpness in endeavoring to 'stick' him on strange rules 
in out-of-the-way corners of the grammar, of which he was 
profoundly ignorant. Then he adds: 'But seriously, I like 
the life.' About a month later he wrote: 'The wheels of 
schoolkeeping are getting better greased and running smoother 
every day.' 

"But the peccadillos of my class, the Fifth, were not a cir- 
cumstance to the misdeeds of the Third Class, to which young 
Brooks was transferred and of which our good Commander 
Rogers was a member. This Third Class had previously 
routed two of its former teachers by its deviltry before Brooks 
was assigned to it, and my older brother, the late Captain N. 
Willis Bumstead, of this Commandery, had a far from easy 
time of it when, after Brooks' resignation, he took his place 
and carried the class through the remainder of the year. 
These boys would throw shot at their teacher, who, when he 
looked up from his desk, would discover the hand that threw 
the shot craftily retained in its uplifted position, suggesting 
that its innocent owner wished to ask a question about his 
studies. They would scatter the ends of explosive matches 
upon the floor to be trodden upon, and they would plug the 
thermometer with snow, causing confusion in the regulation 
of the heat. They would mock the teacher's eyeglasses by 



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wearing tin ones of their own manufacture. Is it any wonder 
that before he had been teaching these boys a month, he wrote 
of them to a friend: 'They are the most disagreeable set of 
creatures without exception that I ever met with.'' (ItaUcs his.) 
And he closes this letter by saying: 'I am really ashamed of it, 
but am tired, sick, cross, and almost dead, so good night and 
good by.' 

"A month later he writes to the same friend: 'I am much 
obliged to you for your last letter and the sympathy you 
express with the laboring ruler of my rebellious subjects. I 
have had very considerable trouble, but matters lately have 
been getting a little better. Things have settled down into a 
strong feeling of quiet hate, which is eminently conducive to 
good order and rapid progress. In all my experience of 
schoolboys and schoolmasters I cannot recall a single 
teacher who was honored with such an overwhelming share of 
deep, steady unpopularity as is at this moment the lot of 
your harmless and inoffensive friend. I believe they consider 
me just now as a sort of dragon with his claws cut, a gigantic 
ogre who would like to eat them but hasn't the stomach to do 
it. If I should adopt your plan of weekly receptions, I 
should deem it safe first to procure a complete suit of chain 
armor to be privately worn so that not a heel might be exposed 
to the assassin's knife of some bloody members of the Third 
Class of the Public Latin School. It may be needful to explain 
that I have changed my class. The one I had before were 
splendid little fellows; these are tough old sinners with the 
iniquity of some sixteen springs, summers, autumns and 
winters on their grim, hoary heads. I am teaching them 
French, which they don't; Greek, which they won't, and Virgil, 
which they can't understand or appreciate.' And finally he 
wrote on February 14, 1856: 'You will be surprised to hear 
that I have left the Latin School. The situation had become 
very disagreeable and I had been gradually coming to the 
conclusion that it did not pay. During the first three months 
I was there I enjoyed it much; but as I told you my situation 
was considerably changed, and I thought it was best to cut 



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the matter short at once, and so I did. I don't yet know what 
I shall do. I may go at once to some profession, or I may 
get private pupils here or elsewhere for a time and live on so.' 

"Such, in brief, is the record of Brooks's failure as a school- 
teacher. It was a crushing failure and he took it very much 
to heart. He busied himself for a while with private tutoring 
and then gradually his thoughts turned to the ministry. But 
he found it hard to escape from the depression of his failure. 
He had but little intercourse with his friends, and he chose the 
far-away Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria, Va., for his 
ministerial training ; and when he went there scarcely any one 
outside his own family knew where he had gone. Even in the 
Seminary, he buried himself in the books of the library, finding 
in them more satisfaction than in the lectures of the professors. 
He once told me that it was at Alexandria that he became a 
confirmed smoker, because the food was so bad and the 
tobacco so good; but it is easy to conjecture another reason 
why the solace of tobacco was grateful to him at that time. 

"Some seven or eight years elapsed before I ever saw my 
former unsuccessful teacher transformed into a successful min- 
ister. I think it was in the summer of 1863, soon after my 
graduation at Yale, that I first heard him preach. It was at a 
union service in the Baptist Church at North Conway, N. H. 
before a congregation made up chiefly of summer visitors in 
the town, and his text was, 'A certain man had two sons' — 
which I have always remembered better than the sermon. The 
most distinct impression made upon me was the great improve- 
ment in his personal appearance; for the somewhat ungainly 
youth who had tried to teach me had developed into a superb 
specimen of physical manhood and was mastering me with his 
earnest utterance. He had then completed his three years at 
the Seminary and four years of preaching in Philadelphia. 

"In the spring of 1864, after preparation at the Massa- 
chusetts Rifle Club — a sort of 'Plattsburg' of those days — 
I was commissioned Major of the Forty-third Regiment 
United States Colored Troops and ordered to report to my 
regiment at Camp William Penn, near Philadelphia; and here 



118 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

it was my good fortune to come in touch with Philhps Brooks 
again. He was then Rector of Holy Trinity Church of Phila- 
delphia, his second parish in that city, and at the height of his 
power as a patriotic defender of the Union Cause in the Civil 
War. It was this patriotic service, as we all know, that 
brought to him, a civilian, with no record as a soldier, but in 
accordance with a time-limited provision in the rules of our 
Order, the distinction of an election to our Commandery as a 
Third Class member — a class so unique and select in its mem- 
bership as to be almost the highest of all. And we must not 
forget, in this connection, that this same honor, for the very 
same reason, came to that other noted minister and patriot, 
Edward Everett Hale, who was elected on the same day with 
Brooks and later succeeded him as our Chaplain. 

"When I went to Philadelphia, I had but little conception 
of what Phillips Brooks was doing for his Country. I was 
chiefly interested in him as being my former teacher. By 
what seemed like a streak of luck, I met him almost im- 
mediately on my arrival in the city, as I am reminded by a 
letter to my mother at the time. 'After a hasty dinner, I 
went in search of the cars for Camp William Penn. In about 
three minutes I fell in with Reverend Phillips Brooks, who very 
kindly directed me, and congratulated me on being in so good 
a work, and requested me to come and see him if I had time, 
all of which was very pleasant to me.' Later I told of my call 
upon him. He had delightful quarters, I wrote, in a boarding 
house — a large parlor and study with bedroom adjoining, all 
elegantly and comfortably furnished. He received me very 
cordially, invited me to make his rooms my headquarters 
whenever I came to town, said he should try to come out and 
see me, and wished he was in my place. I told him I wished 
he was in another place in the regiment, meaning, of course, 
the Chaplain's. He said he thought it better that the colored 
troops should have chaplains from among their own people, 
but I doubted whether there was a sufficient supply from that 
quarter. After being shown into his study and while waiting 
for him to appear, I had noticed that the Testament on his 



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desk was open to the very text from which I had first heard 
him preach at North Conway, 'A certain man had two sons.' 
I jocosely referred to this as a curious coincidence, but assured 
him that I did not suppose he had been preaching from that 
ever since. 'Oh, no,' said he, laughing, 'I have other texts.' 

"The patriotic service of Phillips Brooks is recounted with 
much detail in Professor Allen's biography of him. I can only 
epitomize it briefly, using freely the language of others. When 
he became rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in 1862, he 
found very few anti-slavery men among the clergy, and a 
strong secession sentiment pervading society which was well 
represented in his new church. The Union League Club 
was founded to counteract this baneful influence of society. 
'I accompanied Phillips Brooks to the opening meeting 
(February 1863),' wrote a friend, 'and he made one of those 
bold Union speeches for which he became famous, although 
his parish was a new organization, heavily in debt, and he 
w as in danger of losing some of his most important members 
by his decided action. When most pulpits were silent and 
some adverse, his gave forth no uncertain sound. His manly, 
courageous utterances did much to turn the tide of society 
in favor of the abolition of slavery and the preservation of the 
Union.' 

"In the dark days of 1862, Brooks wrote to his brother 
WilHam as follows: T don't quite like your last letter, it's too 
blue. I own we are in the darkest moment of the war and that 
our elections and some others do look wretchedly, but isn't 
our cause just as good as it ever was, and doesn't it seem as if 
all through the war there had been a design of Providence to 
put off the settlement so that when it did come it might be 
thorough.*^ Certainly if we had conquered at the fust Bull Bun, 
we should have been only too likely to have put things back on 
essentially the old basis, and in a few years had the whole to 
do over. We hope for better things than that.' Good words 
for us. Companions, in these dark days of our great World War, 
are they not.^ 

"And the brighter days dawned upon Brooks as they surely 



120 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

will upon us. For a year later, in 1863, came the victories at 
Gettysburg, Vicksburg and elsewhere, and a memorable 
Thanksgiving sermon followed. The Church of Holy Trinity 
was crowded to its utmost capacity, seats were placed in the 
aisles and many were standing as the preacher announced his 
text. The sermon was a masterpiece of inspired oratory. It 
was at once recognized as something more than a sermon, an 
event in the history of the times. The knowledge of it spread 
widely and rapidly, forging another link in the chain which 
bound the Country to the man in love and reverence. And 
yet — it seems amazing to us now — his old New England home 
was slow in awakening to a realization of his fame. When 
in 1865 he made his wonderful prayer at Harvard on Commem- 
oration Day — the day of Lowell's immortal Ode — the Boston 
Advertiser had to explain that he was a graduate of ten years 
standing and 'now an Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia.' 
Even Colonel T. W. Higginson wondered why a young man 
of whom he had never heard should have been chosen to make 
the prayer on that important occasion in commemoration of 
the Harvard soldiers. He confessed to a friend that he put 
himself in a mood of endurance through what he regarded as a 
dull formality. But from the first sentence from those burn- 
ing lips, his attitude changed. He found himself listening, 
breathless. He felt that he had never heard living prayer 
before ; that here was a man talking straight into the face, into 
the heart of God. When the 'Amen' came, it seemed to him 
that the occasion was over, that the harmonies of the music 
had been anticipated, that the poem had been read and the 
oration already uttered, and that after such a prayer every 
other exercise might well be dispensed with. Colonel Higgin- 
son but expressed the universal feeling of all who were present. 
'That prayer! O, that prayer!' — one man was heard to exclaim 
afterwards, seemingly overcome by its power. No record of 
its words was made at the time or can be found today, but the 
impression it made will never be forgotten. 

"Companions of the Massachusetts Commandery : On this, 
our fiftieth anniversary, shall we not all seek to acquire more of 



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the spirit of our great Chaplain, PhiUips Brooks — his devotion 
to God and Country (those cardinal principles of our Order), 
his clear vision of the moral issues of the Civil War, his faith 
in ultimate victory, his willingness to serve? In this far greater 
world conflict in which we are engaged today, let us try to 
think and act as we are sure he would do if he were still with us. 
"And Mr. Commander — Henry Rogers — my dear old 
schoolmate: Don't you think that Philhps Brooks, if he 
could look down upon this gathering here tonight, would be 
interested, and perhaps pleased, to see two of his 'boys' who 
were closely associated with his troubles over sixty years ago, 
now serving together on the Board of Officers of this Com- 
mandery — one of them holding its highest position and the 
other attempting to follow in the office which he himself so 
highly honored? Surely you and I have peculiar reason for 
cherishing the memory of our former teacher, who retrieved the 
failure of a schoolmaster by the triumph of a patriot and a 
saint." 



It is hardly necessary to say that the allusions to your 
Commander in this address were received with every appear- 
ance of entire concurrence with the speaker in the conclusions 
to be drawn from his reminiscences of early days. Perhaps 
the significance of the life of Phillips Brooks and his work was 
never more truly portrayed than in this brief recital. It was 
fine, in matter and manner, and worthy of the occasion and 
the speaker. 

HENRY N. BLAKE. 

The Commander said: "After the death of our lamented 
friend and Companion, Arnold A. Rand, there was found 
among his papers an address on the Loyal Legion, so significant 
and so appropriate for this occasion that permission was 
given that it might be read to us tonight. Our esteemed 
Companion, Henry N. Blake, Captain of the 11th Massachu- 
setts Infantry, will introduce the writing and present.it to you. 

Captain Blake, after a few preliminary words, read the 



122 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

following address, which was followed by the Companions 
with a deep and almost solemn attention: — 

"I sometimes think of the Loyal Legion and of its members 
as described by Phillips Brooks in his first prayer as Chaplain 
of the Massachusetts Commandery; 'O, dear Lord — all these 
men before Thee have done something — earnestly, perhaps 
even thoughtlessly. Help them today to do more truly, more 
earnestly for the advancement of Thy Kingdom.' And that is 
just what the Legion has stood for and stands for today — for 
there is not a movement for reform, for beneficent or patriotic 
service in which Legion men are not at the front. As they 
were leaders in war, so are they champions in peace! 

"I have sometimes mused in sentimental wonderment as to 
which was the nobler — the Grand Army and its solid ranks of 
men who ploughed with their marching feet the fields of 
Virginia; who climbed the mountains of Tennessee and swept 
through the valleys of the Cumberland, and which when the 
last worn out veteran shall be laid at rest, when not a comrade's 
tears shall fall, and in pathetic silence the Grand Army 
Republic shall be no more; but I turn always to the Loyal 
Legion, worshipping its vital force, its living influence so 
long as America shall last — so long as the flag shall be unfurled 
as the emblem of the free. Looking backward, was the 
wonderful patriotism of 1861, a creation or only an awakening 
— what inspired the wave of enthusiasm which swept over the 
North as the flag burst into view on every building and the 
streets were wreathed in its colors.*^ And yet in our years of 
peace, how little had the flag seemed to mean. When at- 
tacked, how the Country sprang to arms — how the dearest 
and the best went forth to follow that flag. 

"I remember a few years after the war when at Mt. Desert, 
a merry picnic party was caught in a heavy rain and petition- 
ing a native for the use of his large barn, there was given not 
only the barn, but the freedom of the house. On a mantel 
in the living-room stood two tintypes of tall, rugged boys in 
the uniform of an enlisted man. On inquiry it was learned 
from the mother, as she stood before them with head erect 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 123 

and proud mien but with tearful eyes, that her only sons had 
marched with one of the early Maine regiments and never 
came back — one died of starvation at Andersonville, the other 
fell at Fort Harrison, in front of Richmond, as the flag was 
planted on the captured works! Then the father, already 
beyond the age of compulsory military service, volunteered to 
finish the work of his boys, and during the long winters this 
mother lived alone, blocked in by snow for weeks without 
communication with the outside world, or even with neighbors 
— waiting and hoping and praying, 

"The more I thought, the more I wondered — what meaning 
could flag or country have for these people — secure from 
invasion — out of the track of armies — with plenty according 
to their needs around them — how much could they have real- 
ized the struggle in which they were engaged and its meaning. 
Afterward I found the old farmer seated on a log, whittling, 
and I joined him with stick and jack-knife as an introduction. 

" 'You were in war service, your wife tells me.' He looked 
at me suspiciously a moment as if my tone had suggested 
incredulity as to his capacity, and he replied, 'Yes, I marched 
and I fought and I wasn't in the hospital neither.' Still 
wondering, I thought w hat could it all mean to this man to 
whom the hay crop and the potato bug seemed now the sole 
objects of devotion and I said, 'It seems strange to think that 
in all those days we were writing history.' There was dead 
silence — and I thought there is no sentiment at all — no 
underlying realization of what it all meant. Presently the 
old man's knife moved faster and faster and the chips flew, 
until with a flashing eye and a manner which changed the 
rough farmer into the soldier again, he said most earnestly, 
'And we writ a good page of it, too.' 1 never since have 
questioned the sentiment, the enthusiasm or the realization 
of the true meaning of the conflict of such volunteers. 

"It is this same sentiment which the Legion will perpetuate 
and the flag shafl be more dearly held. It was a few years after 
the close of the war, during those dark days of tribulation to 
the South, and almost disgrace to the North, that a number of 



124 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

men, all of whom had been of high rank in the Confederacy, as 
general officers, were together and the conversation drifted 
around to the then present conditions of the Country and the 
proceedings under the reconstruction plans then in progress 
by the General Government. As the conversation progressed 
it became animated and earnest and the denunciations of the 
Administration were harsh and bitter. One excited individual 
characterized the control at Washington as a shameless and 
brutal despotism and declared that he had rather live under 
the King of Dahomey than under such a rule. One after 
another spoke feelingly in the same vein, if not to such an 
extravagant extent. All had expressed themselves fully save 
one who had sat silently listening, with eyes cast down, when 
one of the party, placing his hand on the shoulder of this 
silent man said, 'And what do you say to all this, John.i^' 
The person addressed lifted his head and gazing around 
replied in a tone not to be forgotten and with an earnestness 
it would be hard to portray: 'I have this to say — let the 
Republican party do the worst it can — let the Republicans 
do fifty times worse than they are now doing, and we still 
have the best and grandest Government and Nation the world 
has ever seen. We went through the war together, together 
we shared the toils, the privations, the joy of victory and the 
despair of defeat; but when all was ended our ways parted. 
You remained and took up the burdens and duties of peaceful 
life at your old homes, shattered and devastated as they were, 
and you found encouragement and comfort in gathering the 
tangled threads of your lives and in restoring and recovering 
the past. When all was over, how different our lot — you were 
not called upon to face what I endured. I need not recount 
to you how with two companions I made my way through the 
forests of the Carolinas — through the swamps of Georgia and 
Florida, to its lowest point — then in an open boat without 
provisions, exhausted, starved, half naked, more dead than 
alive, we launched out into a tempest-driven sea — outlawed, 
a price upon our heads, strangers and without a country! We 
reached Havana and found our way to England. From there 



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for four years I wandered, restless, weary, homeless, through 
and over almost every civilized country. I studied and ob- 
served their lives, their methods and their Governments until 
1 knew them well. One day found me at Alexandria. Early 
in the morning I had strolled down to the quays and looking 
out over the water I saw, set as in vignette in the mists of the 
morning, gleaming in the sunshine, the most beautiful flag 
that ever floated — ^the old Stars and Stripes — and in an 
ecstasy I cried, "There is my flag!" I had followed it up the 
heights of Chapultepec — it had waved over my home— my 
children had played among its folds — it had been raised many 
times in my honor, and in the momentary rush of feeling it was 
again my flag and the most beautiful emblem on earth. 

" 'Then came the revulsion of feeling and I realized in all 
its hideous and terrible force the fact that I had no flag — no 
Country— but was an outcast and a wanderer over the face 
of the earth. The desolation of that moment no words can 
express. I could endure it no longer. I came back over the 
seas— I had no part in all this broad domain, no right to set 
my foot on any part of the soil of the United States — but I 
said, "The rest of my life shall be lived in sight of it even if I 
may never more have a right!" So I came to Clifton just over 
the border where I could see it over the river which I might not 
cross; and there the first thing in the morning I saw that 
glorious flag greet the sun, and the last sound to my eager ears 
at night was the sunset gun and the bugle notes that furled 
that flag and told that another day of peace was ended. And 
I watched and waited with a longing and a hunger that few 
might comprehend. At last — but, how long it was in 
coming, — there came the Amnesty Act, and I crossed the river 
with eager feet and I took the oath begrudging even the 
minutes before I could say again, "It is my flag and my 
Country!" ' 

"That silent man, that new American, was none other than 
John C. Breckenridge, General of the Rebel Army and 
Secretary of War of the Confederacy. If to that disfranchised 
rebel — that penitent and returning American — that flag meant 



126 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

so much, what must it not mean to you, men who followed, 
through flood and tempest, through carnage and blood, 
through defeat and disaster, until washed from every stain of 
slavery it in triumph and glory became the flag of the free ? 
Legion men who foflowed your commanders — Hancock and 
Grant and Sheridan and Hayes and Melville and MacArthur — 
your commanders in War and in Peace — you who emerging from 
the plains of possibilities have made your joyous or weary 
way, climbing the heights of life with all the vicissitudes of 
light and shadow, of hopes and disappointments, of gains 
and loss, of clinging love and fateful torment — who in the 
setting sunlight of life are fast reaching the summit and, 
passing over the crest, are lost in the shadowing mysteries — 
plant that banner high, call back to those still climbing the 
hills words of encouragement! — cry, as with trumpet notes, 
'Play up and play the game!' — not for wealth, not for mere 
success, but for loyalty — for patriotism — for Country! And 
to you, O dear Companions of a later generation, what 

can we say? Be proud of your heritage, remember that it 

was blood-bought Glory in that starry flag, the emblem of 
home and Country, worship it, rejoice in it, give to its support 
your life energies, and if need be, die for it." 



The Commander with a few parting words closed the formal 
exercises, calling upon the chorus to take charge, which was 
done, and finally all the company joined hands and sang, 
"Auld Lang Syne." The occasion was memorable for many 
reasons, but not the least because some of the sons of Com- 
panions, dressed in khaki and about to go "across seas," by 
their presence gave a new tenderness to our hearts and a new 
impulse to our faith in the principles of our great Order. 



On the 7th day of March, an afternoon reception was given 
by the Commandery at Headquarters to Mrs. John P. Nichol- 
son and the ladies of the Companions. The day opened with 
the most violent snowstorm of the year, but clearing weather 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 127 

followed and there were many Companions with their ladies 
present to greet both Colonel and Mrs. Nicholson and to bid 
them welcome. Opportunity was afforded also to examine the 
Memorabilia gathered in the Library and everything was done 
to make the occasion informal and interesting. Colonel and 
Mrs. Nicholson departed two days after, carrying with them 
the assurances of the honor and pleasure they had given to 
the Companions of Massachusetts. 

On the fifth of May, 1918, the Annual Meeting of the Com- 
mandery took place and the new officers were elected. 

On that occasion Mr. Edward H. Sothern, the distinguished 
actor and patriot, recently returned from France, where he 
had been working with the Y. M. C. A., told of his experiences 
and of his hopes and read some of the poems he had read to our 
boys across seas. His return to France was announced and 
he carried with him the thanks of the Commandery for what 
he had done and a hearty Godspeed for his future work in 
the cause of the Allies. 

Under date of July 20, 1918, Mr. Sothern writes to your 
Annalist from London, as follows: "I shall always recall that 
Loyal Legion night with affection. It was a gentle and 
tender occasion and I am so glad I had the joy of being present 
and of taking a part. It will be a sweet remembrance always." 



CONCLUSION. 



Eleven months have passed since these Annals were under- 
taken. During this time the most momentous events in the 
history of our Country have been unfolded, day by day. 

The Republic has been, — still is, — on trial. 

Democracy, long ago declared impotent, a solecism in 
government, without power of organization or administra- 
tion, has proudly raised its head. It has found its soul. 

Today the President of the United States, by the votes of 
a free people, has been entrusted with powers beyond the 
dreams of conquerors, to fight for its ideals: not for its own 



128 MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 

gain, not for its own aggrandizement, but to make the world 
a fit place for peaceful men and women to live in, unterrified 
by threats of a world conquest in the interest of despotism. 
Our President, hke the Consuls of Rome, has taken his oath 
to see to it that the Republic comes into no danger. Every 
citizen finds himself elevated to the same lofty eminence, to 
see to it that the Republic comes into no danger. That has 
become his soul's ideal — something to live or to die for. 

The world is tired of absolutism. There is between it and 
democracy an impassable gulf fixed, and one or the other 
must go down. The imponderable forces, truth, honor, 
virtue, sanctity, cannot be blown away by the breath of any 
despotism; they must endure or the whole fabric crumbles. 

Today we exult in the great uprising: we glory in our 
sacrifices. With grim determination and with all our energies 
we face the future, grateful to our God and our Fathers' God 
for the opportunity to slough off the trammels of indolence, 
indifference, selfishness, luxury, and to face the great light. 

The daily lists of our casualties are the drumbeats of our 
people. Our hearts bleed in a common sadness, a common 
bereavement; but they glow, too, in the thought that every 
State, city and hamlet shares the common weal and the 
common woe. A united people follows the leadership of a 
duly elected President, not as Democrat, or as Republican, 
but as American citizen. 

A few days ago the city of Raltimore awarded a grand 
prize to Wilham Tyler Page of Washington, D. C, for the 
best expression of the duty of a citizen today and every day; 
it may not be out of place to reproduce it here : 

"THE AMERICAN'S CREED" 

"I believe in the United States of America — as a govern- 
ment of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just 
powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a 
democracy in a republic ; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign 
States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon 
those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity 



COMMANDERY OF STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 129 

for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. 
I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love it, to 
support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, 
and to defend it against all enemies." 

This creed has been adopted and stands for all. 

The blood of the youth of the United States mingles today 
in a common stream on the crimsoned battle fronts of France 
and Flanders. It asks not, are you of the North or South, of 
the East or West.^ The spirit of the youth of the United States 
is that of trusted comradeship and high service. The flag of 
our common country is to each and every one the symbol of 
consecration to ideals, — to be moulded into living realities. 
That flag is to be planted on the heights, to be known of all 
mankind as the rallying flag for the oppressed of the Earth, 
under whose folds they may be free: a flag that stands for 
equality of opportunity, for government under law, — not for 
oppression or tyranny. 

It is not the symbol of license or of lawlessness and unre- 
strained passion, but of rights enjoyed and duties assumed 
because one lives under it. 

Believing that God is and that Truth will prevail, the 
Youth of the United States ask the privilege to share with 
their brothers of the Allied forces in placing the flag of the 
United States beside their own in the march towards a common 
victory and an enduring peace. 



INDEX 



Admission Fee 19 

"Americans' Creed, The" 128, 129 

Anniversaries 

Tiie Twenty-fifth of the Order. 45, 47 

The Fiftieth of the Order 54 

The Fiftieth of the Comman- 

dery 98-126 

Antietam, Excursion to 49 

Army and Navy Monument Boston, 

Dedication of 14 

Attwood, CorneUus G 1 

Aubin, J. Harris 26 

Banlcs, Nathaniel P 72, 73 

Bartlett, William F 12, 13 

Bell, James B 1 

Bequest, Form of 26 

Blake, Henry N. Address 121-126 

Bouve, Edward T 35 

Brooks, Phillips 91, 94, 95 

Bumstead, Horace 113-121 

Bunker Hill, Centenary of 11.12 

Burchard, Roswell B 61 

Cadet Armory 21, 44, 45 

Photograph Opp. 45 

Calef, Benjamin S 77, 78 

Carter, Solon A 62, 63 

Celebration, May, 1871 8 

Charter, Copy of 18 

Charter Members 1 

Clark, Charles P. (Commander) 

48, 76, 77 

Clark, C. Peter, Registrar 59, 101 

Cogswell, William 1 

Colt, Le Baron B 61 

Commander, Election for Single 

Year 33, 34 

Committees on History 34 

Congress of the Order 13, 58, 59 

Corse, John :M 39, 67, 69-72 

Crowninsliield, Caspar 78 

Denny, G. Waldo 1 

Devens, Charles 1,8. 40-46, 66-69 

Drake, George B 73 

Draper, William F 21, 85-87 



Election of Commander for Single 
Year Criticized 33-34 

Endicott, William 97 

Epochs of our History 

First 6-16 

Second 16-48 

Third 48-63 

Farragut, David G 8 

Fay, Franklin B 95-97 

Funeral Service 64, 65 

Gettysbm-g, The Battle of 

By Haskell 27 

Gettysb\irg, Excursion to 49. 50 

Grand Array, Affiliation with. 32, 33, 56 

Encampments 47, 48, 60 

Grant's Monument, Dedication of 

41, 48 

Griffln, Simon G 38, 39, 80-82 

Hale, Edward Everett 92, 95 

Haskell, F. A 27 

Hayes. Rutherford B. ... 14. 45, 66, 67 

Hesseltine, Francis S 57 

Higginson, Henry L. . . .37, 57, 62, 100 

Higginson, Thomas W 83, 84 

Hincks, Edward W 39, 73-76 

Hodgkins, William H 21, 25 

Hunt, Charles 27, 61 

Hubbard, Thomas H 54 

Hutchings, William V 1, 11, 64 

Incorporation 17 

Insignia 30 

Jenkins, Philip A 27 

Lamson, Daniel S 1,2 

Lee, Fitz Hugh 12 

Lexington, Centennial of Battle . . 10, 11 

Library, The 19-26 

Photograph 5 Opp. 21, 65, 99 

Little, Arthur 57, 88 

Livermore, Thomas L. . .6., 15, 62, 63 
"Loyal Legion Hymn" 104-105 

Martin. Augustus P 3, 82, 83 

Meetings. Social Character of Early . . 3 

131 



132 



MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION 



Membership 4, 30 

Memorial Tablets 31 

Tribute 32 

Photograph Opp. 31 

Morse, Charles F 57 

Moulton, Orson 1 

Nicholson, John P 54, 105-112 

Nicholson, Mrs. John P., Reception 
■ to 126, 127 

Olmstead, Frederic Law 29 

Obsorn, Francis A 1, 2, 3, 87 

"Other Side of the War, The" 28 

Otis, Mrs. Harrison Gray 10 

"Our Dead" 63-93 

Palfrey, F. W 11, 14 

'Parable for Fathers" 61, 62 

Parker, Edgar 36 

Permanent Fund 14, IS, 19 

Pickett, Josiah ] , 85 

Pope, Albert A 37 

Porter, Charles H 48-50 

Pratt, William 1, 16 

"Preparedness Parade" 57 

Rand, Arnold A. 

6, 15, 21. 25, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36, 52, 62 

Address of 121-126 

Portrait of Opp. 15 

Register of Commandcry 1 

Rhoades, Charles W. C 50-58 

Rice, Edmund 83 



Rpbins, Edward B 15 

Rockwell, Alfred P 3-83 

Rogers, Henry M 59 

Address of 101-105 

Portrait Frontispiece 

Ro.sette, The 42-44 

Sanitary Commission 28 

Schaff, Morris 13 

Sheridan, Philip H, 

Reception to 38 

Sherman, William T 12, 47 

Shreve, William P 16, 28, 31 

Sisson, Henry 

Dedication of Monument to 61 

Sothern, Edward H 127 

"Sound the Assembly" 100, 101 

Sprague, Augustus B. R 1, 84, 85 

Stone, Henry 26, 28, 31, 35 

Third Class Members 40, 55, 88-94 

Tucker, Louis N 1 

Turnbull, Charles N 1 

Van Slyck, Cyrus Manchester 2 

Wales, Nathaniel 54 

Walker, Francis A 77-80 

Ware, Dr. Robert 29 

Wood, Julia Francis 61, 62 

Wormeley, Katherine Prescott 28 

Young. Samuel B. M 99 



